The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Woke Calgary mayor candidate ATTACKS ME after his lead drops in polls!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, back with another update on the race to see who is going to be the

00:00:06.260 next mayor of Calgary. So, it took a very strange turn yesterday when there was a radio debate

00:00:13.760 hosted by Ryan Jesperson, and the woke candidate Jeremy Farkas decided that it would be a great

00:00:21.140 idea to attack myself, Kian Bextie, Theo Fleury, and David Parker when he was allowed to ask a

00:00:29.340 question to the candidate that I am backing, Sonia Sharp. I don't know why he did this. If anything,

00:00:37.080 it just goes to show that they're very insecure about their chances of winning. Farkas is in fact

00:00:43.340 in the lead right now, but I would say that he's stalled out in the lead. His car got to the front

00:00:49.180 of the race, and now it's broken down, and Sonia Sharp is very likely to overtake him, and so he

00:00:54.960 started slinging mud by implying that I am very bad. And I do have to give, you know, him some

00:01:02.480 credit for putting me at the top of his hate list. It probably demonstrates that all of the viewers of

00:01:08.720 this channel have been taking out a lot of signs for Sonia Sharp and at the doors. Probably videos 0.79

00:01:13.920 I make get brought up, and they're very mad about it, so they tried to bait Sonia into condemning me.

00:01:19.420 It was not going to happen. I'm very friendly with Sonia, and I need to play this clip in just a

00:01:24.580 second here. It's absolutely hilarious, but we will be getting to the polling later on in this video,

00:01:29.800 and I was happy to see Janet Brown actually conducted a poll for the mayor's race. She is 0.83

00:01:35.500 easily the most accurate pollster in Canada. She got the Alberta provincial election within decimal

00:01:42.280 points, and this is not a rare thing for her. She's always quite accurate, but in that last Alberta

00:01:47.760 provincial election, she had gotten every single party within one percent of what they actually got

00:01:54.080 on election day, and she did that poll like a week and a half before the actual election

00:01:58.940 took place. She's just very good at actually getting to the people likely to vote in all the

00:02:04.620 different regions. But anyways, but before we get into it, guys, I just want to remind you, if you

00:02:09.980 like the channel, like the video, subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber, and especially if you want

00:02:15.300 to see more updates like this. And then also leave a comment on what you think about all this.

00:02:20.860 And if you live in the city of Calgary, I always make sure to pin a link for Sonia Sharp's lawn sign

00:02:27.440 request. If you guys want to go request a lawn sign, definitely get one if you don't have one yet.

00:02:33.120 The science of it is usually if you put a lawn sign in front of your house, it usually reminds one of

00:02:38.240 your neighbors to get out and vote, and maybe vote for the person that you did, because they probably

00:02:42.700 have quite a bit of respect for your opinions. Again, we've probably placed around 1,000 lawn

00:02:49.220 signs for Sonia Sharp around the city of Calgary. And what we're about to see here with Jeremy Farkas

00:02:54.780 probably just demonstrates that people like myself and Ian Bextie at Juno News have been very

00:03:00.840 effective in exposing him, as well as promoting Sonia Sharp. And again, I'm not on her campaign.

00:03:06.480 In fact, I donated $1,000 to Sonia Sharp. And in fact, because Jeremy Farkas attacked me this way,

00:03:14.280 I'm considering donating even more. Every attack I receive from Jeff Davison or Jeremy Farkas will

00:03:21.480 result in more money for Sonia Sharp. But let's get into the clip here. I thought Ryan Jesperson

00:03:27.380 actually put together quite a good debate. I wish the open debate sections were a bit longer, but you know,

00:03:32.500 he's probably restricted by how long he has on the radio and how much of the campaigns were willing

00:03:37.860 to be on the show. The question in front of Sonia Sharp. Yeah, for Councillor Sharp, I understand that

00:03:46.020 you've been endorsed by Wyatt Claypool, Kian Bextie, Theo Fleury, and most recently, David Parker with

00:03:54.680 Take Back Alberta. My question is, will you reject these endorsements? And if not, what is it about your

00:04:01.420 political party and you personally, that draws these individuals to support your campaign?

00:04:06.500 I'm going to let, I'm going to get to the answer from Sonia in just a second here.

00:04:10.420 When I was running for the Calgary Signal Hill conservative nomination federally, I had lunch

00:04:16.860 with Jeremy Farkas. I was running on the same things back then that I promote now. But he just does this,

00:04:23.040 like, he asked this question to imply that myself and Kian Bextie and Fleury and Parker are all vaguely bad.

00:04:31.420 He didn't cite anything any of us have said to suggest that we need to be distanced from. I know that Fleury can

00:04:38.460 sometimes post things that are quite eccentric, and David Parker can even be controversial in some UCP circles.

00:04:44.640 But that's more of internal politics kind of stuff. That's not because anyone has actually exposed a position

00:04:50.400 like, we should hang all the liberals or something like that. None of us have ever said anything like that.

00:04:55.520 But I'm pretty mainstream, if anything. Kian Bextie as well. Jeremy Farkas, again, is just upset that his campaign

00:05:02.560 isn't going as well as he hoped, because we're going to get to his polling later. Although he's leading,

00:05:07.240 everyone knows who he is. If he was really the golden son of this election, he would be way up in front.

00:05:13.500 He's not, because people know who he is. People also know who the current Mayor Gondek is, and not that many

00:05:19.800 people really like, they're heavily coasting by on their name recognition and not their policies.

00:05:25.680 And I'm going to get into some of Jeremy Farkas' policies in just a second here, but I will let

00:05:30.440 Sonia answer. And then I do want to get to her asking a question to Davison, because

00:05:35.000 Farkas and Davison are like two sides of the same coin. Both of them are completely flip-flopping,

00:05:41.680 but they're flip-flopping in opposite directions. One of them used to be conservative,

00:05:45.480 like, i.e. Farkas, but has become an insane woke liberal. And the other, Jeff Davison,

00:05:51.680 was a very woke liberal councillor who's pretending to be conservative now.

00:05:56.260 Thanks for the question, Jeremy. What I'll say is, I can't really control who endorses me. I actually

00:06:01.900 was also just endorsed by the Latino community. And I think that's just a sign that I can actually get

00:06:07.920 endorsed from all walks of life and political spectrums. And so what I'll say about the political

00:06:13.340 party, we have all candidates from all, like you, full political spectrum on your own team.

00:06:19.660 Except the difference is, I have a team. And I not just have a team, I have three current members of

00:06:24.960 council that are endorsing me for mayor. And really what it shows, and I'm a leader, and it shows that

00:06:29.600 I can build a team. And we all believe in the same things to get the job done. So, you know, people want

00:06:36.400 to endorse me. I can't stop that. But I am just very targeted on my focus on how to lead Calgary.

00:06:42.720 And I am here to lead everybody, regardless of what political banner you might fly under.

00:06:48.000 There's no conservative way to fill a pothole, or progressive way to fill a pothole. Just do it

00:06:53.420 right.

00:06:54.280 But will you reject those endorsements?

00:06:55.760 I think it was only one question.

00:06:57.080 It is.

00:06:57.980 I've had people DM me or tweet at me on X. I still call it Twitter sometimes. And they're

00:07:06.120 like, oh, Sonia should have defended you and Kian and whatnot. It's like, no, it's a stupid attack.

00:07:11.600 Slip by the attack. Don't start justifying, or it makes it sound like there was a reason

00:07:15.980 that we need to be defended. We don't. Nobody probably even really knows who I am, in the sense

00:07:21.940 that if you watch the channel, you know who I am. If you're in conservative, independent

00:07:25.080 media, you know who I am, maybe. But it's not like the average radio viewer is going to

00:07:29.520 say like, oh, Wyatt Claypool can't vote for Sonia Sharp anymore. Some random conservative

00:07:34.440 guy likes her. You know, Kian Bexty. I can't believe Kian Bexty likes her. Like, nobody actually

00:07:39.920 has a bad impression of us two, unless you're on the far out progressive fringe, which this

00:07:45.120 is demonstrating how woke Jeremy Farkas and his team are that they thought this was going

00:07:50.240 to be an effective attack.

00:07:51.940 And even for Theo Fleury's eccentricities as a person, and I wouldn't agree with everything

00:07:56.760 he posts, the guy's been through a lot in his life, and he does a lot of positive work.

00:08:01.920 The idea that you're going to run down that guy is pretty gross. And even with David Parker,

00:08:07.000 all of his controversies more have to do with internal UCP politics. I know he's pretty good

00:08:12.260 friends with James Lindsay. He is, in fact, an opponent of like the woke right. He's not like

00:08:17.420 a Christian nationalist or anything like that. In fact, I'd probably agree with like 80

00:08:21.780 percent of the things he believes, 20 percent probably internal governance stuff that we

00:08:25.760 disagree on. It's so dumb that he even attempted to do this. And what he just basically showed,

00:08:31.340 he put all of his cards on the table and says, I'm very insecure about my ability to win.

00:08:36.040 And there is no progressive influencers that are doing Jeremy Farkas any good right now,

00:08:41.500 because guess what? The progressives have become extremely unpopular in Calgary. The only way

00:08:46.960 Farkas was going to win was being able to keep up the charade that he still somehow the 2021 version

00:08:53.400 of himself. In fact, Rick Bell of the Calgary Herald wrote a great article talking about the

00:08:59.000 differences between Farkas 2021 and Farkas 2025. And we're going to get to the Jeff Davison clip here

00:09:05.600 in just a second. But again, these guys have flip-flopped in opposite directions. I actually

00:09:09.580 liked most of Farkas's record when he was councillor between 2017 and 2021. It was quite good. The

00:09:18.620 problem is, though, is when you basically disown your own platform, your own record, yeah, I have

00:09:24.640 no confidence that there's any conservative bone left in your body when you can't actually stand up

00:09:29.480 for the things that you voted for. Even when he's called out, that's the funny thing. Gondek,

00:09:34.600 who is the woke mayor. So we have two woke people to top the polls, and we have one conservative and

00:09:40.320 Sonia Sharp right now, which is good. They can keep splitting each other's vote. But it's gotten

00:09:44.620 to the point where Gondek attacks Farkas for trying to crib her style, basically. That, hey, Farkas, 0.98

00:09:51.720 stop trying to steal my woke record from me. Because even though Farkas voted against the Green Line, 0.98

00:09:56.340 which was good to vote against, he now says, no, no, no, I voted against the Green Line because I

00:10:00.540 wanted to do woke stuff like invest in housing and do progressive things. That's actually what

00:10:06.080 I wanted to do. That's the only reason I voted against the Green Line. And I know people like

00:10:10.300 Ike Sharp somewhat support the Green Line now, but there's a difference between supporting it before

00:10:15.480 shovels ever went into the ground and at least having to support some version of it because we've

00:10:20.920 already spent most of the money. So we kind of have to, you know, we've already allocated the money.

00:10:24.880 So we kind of have to finish the project, but let's just try and make this thing work.

00:10:28.900 So those are just two different positions to, you know, clarify. And I don't even agree. I don't

00:10:34.340 think that Sonia's record's perfect. She voted for the climate emergency right when she came into

00:10:39.060 office. It was the first vote. She thought it was just some random declaratory motion. And she even

00:10:43.420 said, I regretted that vote and I will repeal it and get rid of all the climate spending. So good.

00:10:49.500 Again, I don't require people to have perfect ideological records. I actually like that someone can make a

00:10:55.720 mistake and say, that was a mistake. I'm not going to do that again. And in fact, let's make up for it

00:11:00.760 by repealing it, getting rid of all of the spending attached to it. But for the most part, the rest of

00:11:05.740 Sonia's record has been really solid across the board. Voted against every tax increase, actually

00:11:10.780 been trying to find cost saving measures in government. It voted against blanket rezoning.

00:11:14.940 It's been overall very, very good. Jeff Davison, on the other hand, pretends he doesn't have the record

00:11:20.260 that he has. So now let's cut to this clip of the debate. And then I want to talk a little bit more about

00:11:26.940 Jeremy and some of his policies. And I appreciate that. We will now transition. Sonia Sharp asking the

00:11:33.860 question to Jeff Davison. Okay. All right, Jeff. Jeremy gets criticized for totally being inconsistent

00:11:40.620 with his past record, which is rightfully so. But I want to ask you the same question. The Jeff Davison

00:11:46.440 four years ago as a counselor didn't match the Jeff Davison you're presenting today. Back then you

00:11:51.580 voted for every tax increase. You supported defunding the police and supported weakening

00:11:55.620 counsel's oversight of senior administration. So how is it today you position yourself as a tax

00:12:01.880 fighting police pro governance expert that voters can suddenly trust? And so how can you square that

00:12:07.980 circle? And, you know, how can voters see past that? Thanks for the question. I mean, I got into this

00:12:15.040 game because frankly, you're not listening. And the issues in Calgary have actually changed. I mean,

00:12:19.460 when it comes to defunding the police, sorry, that that's a big lie. And you continue to perpetuate

00:12:24.180 that lie. You constantly tell. I will be debunking this in a second. It's the dumbest talking point

00:12:29.600 ever. He's basically throwing the police under the bus or trying to at least protect a little bit of

00:12:34.640 their. It's not to perpetuate lies, but you do the same thing. The police chief asked us for support.

00:12:40.120 When we think about one of the biggest problems right now happening in Calgary, it's public safety.

00:12:45.100 And it's about mental health and addiction challenges. And at the time, Calgary police

00:12:48.600 were looking for new tools to figure out how we respond differently on the ground in Calgary.

00:12:54.680 Oh, okay. And this is, this is, I like, I like the term and it's, it's from James Lindsay,

00:13:00.500 who I mentioned earlier. It's called telling the truth falsely. Were the Calgary police probably

00:13:05.840 looking for other tools to deal with combat addiction and mental health problems on streets?

00:13:10.660 Probably. That didn't require to defund the police. The police knew that most of the council,

00:13:18.040 including Jeff Davison and one of his big boosters, Ward Sutherland, were big progressives who were

00:13:24.340 going to vote with the BLM movement to basically defund the police. It was, they were defunding them

00:13:29.100 $20 million and for the next couple of years in 2022 and 2023. And so what they effectively did was

00:13:37.520 they said, okay, we know you're going to try and defund us. So how about you take this $20 million

00:13:42.480 and at least put it towards some mental health and addictions initiative that we can at least

00:13:49.000 somewhat still control. We can't use it for policing, but at least it will kind of go towards something

00:13:54.740 that's public safety related, even though it wasn't very effective. They at least wanted to

00:14:00.460 protect their budget in that way. Seeing the train coming down the line that was going to slam into

00:14:05.820 them and try and take away a bunch of their money. They're saying, okay, you're going to take $20

00:14:09.020 million away from us and at least put it towards something slightly public safety related. Because

00:14:14.120 by the way, five of the council are still voted against defunding the police, including Farkas,

00:14:19.320 who now would probably disown himself for doing that. But you had people like Urquhart and DeMogg,

00:14:24.060 and you had Farkas and a couple of others, Meglioka and Chu. They all voted against defunding the

00:14:32.220 police back then because they said, no, no, the police deserve all of the money. We don't need

00:14:38.060 to move it towards any other programs. They need the money. We need more police on the streets.

00:14:43.040 So regardless of what CPS is telling us to do to defend their budget from just being totally ripped

00:14:47.560 away from them, we want you to keep your entire budget and only for policing. But Jeff acts like they

00:14:52.560 came to him and begged him to defund them. And that's the thing I don't like about Davidson at

00:14:58.080 all. If he said, I used to be a liberal, I used to be more of a liberal counselor. I've seen the

00:15:03.420 error of my ways and I'm here to do things in a more conservative way. I would respect that.

00:15:09.020 But when you always have a cute little excuse for why you did the wrong thing, get out of here.

00:15:14.200 It's just pathetic. His campaign team has been the nastiest this entire time. I'm having to file

00:15:21.140 a police report against one of his campaign organizers for doxing me or saying I should

00:15:27.320 get shot in the head instead of, or I say I should just get shot, not in the head part,

00:15:32.680 sometimes just flourish, I say. But I should have been shot instead of Charlie Kirk. It's nuts.

00:15:37.540 Like posting my phone number all over social media using an anonymous account and telling people

00:15:42.320 to call it. Like it's been wild. And like he endorsed George Shahal in 2021, the porch pirate

00:15:50.180 who's stealing conservative literature out of the doors. He back here, this is Jeff Davison

00:15:56.860 back in, I think what it was this like, probably 2021 sometime there. And he says, this is the

00:16:04.240 right move. We're pushing 80% vaccinated in Calgary. We can't let Calgarians be held hostage

00:16:10.480 by Farkas's anti-vax agenda. The vast majority of Calgarians support these measures. We should 1.00

00:16:15.980 listen to what Calgarians are telling us and keep people safe. What the heck? He was a big

00:16:21.760 vaccine mandate guy. And again, the hilarious part is that Farkas wouldn't come out and say

00:16:26.360 that he took the right position in opposing the mandates. And Farkas is somebody like myself.

00:16:30.720 I was vaccinated, but I also opposed the mandates tooth and nail the entire time because it's stupid.

00:16:36.100 You can't force people to take a medical treatment that you do not want. You can't even give everyone

00:16:40.680 ibuprofen without hurting someone because some people can't take it. And again, I can tell you

00:16:45.700 that Farkas would not be the guy to defend his position on that anymore. This is his campaign

00:16:50.400 team. He still has two masked people in the year 2025. This was like a month and a half ago.

00:16:57.340 They are still wearing masks full time on that campaign. Those are his two managers wearing the

00:17:02.700 masks. It's been wild. And I'm so happy I went and dug up that photo from a couple months ago of

00:17:09.140 his campaign because that one's gone around so much because it's a perfect encapsulation

00:17:13.020 of what the Jeremy Farkas campaign has turned into. It is WOKE in all caps. And we will get to his

00:17:19.660 website in a little bit to prove that even further. Oh, and by the way, Jeff Davison, and I have another

00:17:25.020 video in the past. I could go back and get the screenshot of it. He's changed his website since,

00:17:29.720 but it's been preserved on my website. He used to have a land acknowledgement at the front and

00:17:34.540 center of his website. And I had one of his campaign managers say, oh, it was just a staffer

00:17:39.620 who did that. We didn't tell them to do it. Really? You didn't notice something on the front page of

00:17:44.560 your website for months and a staffer just decided to do that themselves? No way. Don't you have a

00:17:50.240 conservative staff who wouldn't have done something virtue signaling like that? But whatever. I'll keep

00:17:56.140 playing Jeff talk. You know, I've supported police all my life. When they said, Jeff, we need mental

00:18:00.600 health support for officers. I supported it. When they said we need body-worn cameras for officers,

00:18:04.620 I supported it. When Calgary said we need more police helicopters because Calgary has the most

00:18:09.280 widely flown choppers in the world. I supported it. I am pro-police. I am pro-cleaning up our streets.

00:18:14.480 And the fact that you continue to push this misinformation shows me that you're actually no better than

00:18:19.220 Mr. Farkas is. So please stop calling him a liar if you're not going to do the same. Okay, Jeff.

00:18:24.500 Except he's lying about her lying. So it's very ironic. But yeah. It's now your turn. It's not been, I don't

00:18:31.140 even know. The funniest thing here, I'll play a little bit of it. Okay. Jeff Davison is in fourth place.

00:18:38.720 Brian Thiessen is in fifth place. Look at this. Jeff Davison posed a question to Brian Thiessen.

00:18:43.220 Sure. Brian, Calgarians are tired of paying more and getting less.

00:18:47.640 Why is he? It doesn't even matter. I watched the full debate. It was the most boring question ever

00:18:52.520 with the most boring answer ever because it's Brian Thiessen who is like, I don't even know. He's

00:18:58.620 like Nenshi 2.0. Actually, never mind. Farkas is Nenshi. Actually, no. Gondek is Nenshi 2.0.

00:19:04.880 Farkas is Nenshi 3.0. And Brian Thiessen is Nenshi 4.0. And Thiessen has this tendency of

00:19:11.280 talking like Nenshi where he kind of like throws his head back and forth like he's about to fall

00:19:15.240 asleep and throwing his wrists out as he talks. It's weird. But the reason Jeff Davison asked a

00:19:21.100 question to Brian Thiessen, in my opinion, is because if he asked a question to Sharp, to Gondek,

00:19:27.960 or to Farkas, he knew that they were going to counterpunch him hard because he has no leg to

00:19:32.560 stand on in those sorts of positions that he advocates for now. Whereas Brian Thiessen doesn't

00:19:36.860 care. Brian Thiessen basically takes every single question in the direction of attacking

00:19:40.960 Daniel Smith to try and get some of the anti-UCP NDP vote in the mayoral race. And you know

00:19:48.020 what? I commend him for it because he's splitting the vote hard with Gondek and Farkas. He doesn't 1.00

00:19:52.400 have a lot of the vote in the first place, but I'd rather it go to useless Brian Thiessen

00:19:56.560 than Farkas or Gondek. But I have to read you this. And this is Farkas' platform. The entire 0.74

00:20:04.280 thing, and they have these PDFs that are super long that you can read. It's all gobbledygook.

00:20:09.020 And you can even just tell by the way the whole thing is made. The whole website. It just screams

00:20:15.760 woke, progressive downtown campaign. But this isn't really what I want to talk about. I want

00:20:23.960 to talk about a specific policy brief on the website that has just an absolute doozy at the end. And they

00:20:30.920 could say, oh, well, why are you going down? And like, who cares? It's such a small little thing.

00:20:35.600 It matters. This is on page four out of four on their housing brief. Point 25 is

00:20:43.060 adopt a housing equity roadmap to ensure Calgary's housing systems work for racialized

00:20:52.260 indigenous disabled newcomer and 2SLGBTQIA plus residents. Oh my goodness. He couldn't even 1.00

00:20:59.100 just say LGBT. He had to say 2SLGBTQIA plus because two-spirit because they're indigenous must come

00:21:05.520 first. That's literally why they do it. It's so, again, I pride myself. I've somehow made, as I attack

00:21:13.800 him, I have somehow made Farkas' campaign better because the lady in the photo here with the mask on

00:21:20.500 the left, I've seen her recently take the mask off. In the last six days, even though I've seen her at

00:21:25.940 events still wearing the mask, and this is recent. These people aren't sick. The one guy, I have to go

00:21:30.880 find the photo if I can get it. The one guy on the right there, his mask is like flower embroidered.

00:21:37.820 This is something he obviously got custom made. It's not because a family member's sick. He's wearing

00:21:42.500 this because it's a fashion statement and a political symbol. But recently, Farkas' team's

00:21:47.860 probably said, can you please take the masks off? We're looking really woke right now. And they finally

00:21:52.520 did it because even woke people eventually have to remember that imagistics matter.

00:21:57.080 But now I want to take you over to something else because recently Farkas' people have been saying

00:22:01.760 that, oh, secretly Sharp is in favor of blanket rezoning. No, she's not. She's in favor of something

00:22:09.560 that's sensible. That once you repeal blanket rezoning, you will have to grandfather in some

00:22:16.020 of the properties that were already approved for the duplex or the triplex where they've already

00:22:20.400 broken ground and they've built part of the structure for the triplex. It was bad that this

00:22:26.120 ever happened, but you would be in a big lawsuit as a city if you just suddenly took the developer's

00:22:31.580 plans and you just ripped the carpet out from under them. You would have placed millions of dollars in

00:22:35.840 taxpayer money. It's just one of those, you know, it's one of those attritional losses that when a

00:22:40.760 bad idea is brought in, sometimes you have to let a little bit of it go forward in your repealing of

00:22:45.920 it. You can't just basically say, no, no, no, stop it. Rip all these posts out of the ground.

00:22:49.560 You're not building that. In an ideal world, yes, but you're going to go to court and a liberal judge

00:22:55.720 is going to reward the developer millions of dollars and they're going to be able to build

00:22:59.020 it anyways because, hey, they started building when they said they were allowed to. That's

00:23:03.820 Farkas' big hit on her, except I really like that, again, communities first. I endorse them.

00:23:10.000 I endorse Sonia 100%. I do like that they started using all my posts because all these screenshots of

00:23:14.800 Farkas' team are all my people. And this is the stuff I was already pointing out.

00:23:19.140 Communities first, who again is the Sonia Sharp party. It says, Sonia Sharp and Communities first

00:23:24.140 standing with communities against blanket rezoning. Jeremy Farkas' top advisor pushing blanket rezoning.

00:23:30.120 And they're talking about this gentleman right here that they have the arrow over top of,

00:23:33.920 whose name is Alex McCoyle. I know him. He will call himself a libertarian, but he's one of these guys

00:23:39.480 who's only in favor of freedom if he gets to define it in a leftward direction. You should have the

00:23:45.980 freedom to do whatever you want as long as it's left wing. But he says right here in a post, and this

00:23:51.780 post is from 2024 when the blanket rezoning stuff was starting up. He says, I am a Yimby, which is a

00:23:58.540 yes in my backyard, the opposite of a Nimby. You know, Nimbyism can be bad where people constantly block 0.58

00:24:03.780 every development around them. You know, you don't own the landscape around you. If people are

00:24:09.100 following the zoning laws, that should be good. But people who are then Yimby's are like, you should 1.00

00:24:13.740 be able to build anything ever anywhere. And it doesn't matter if we don't have the plumbing

00:24:17.200 infrastructure or the parking for it. Oh, you can't block other people from building stuff.

00:24:23.620 Infrastructure and zoning needs to be done delicately. Or else a building comes in, an apartment block

00:24:28.840 gets built too close to a bunch of suburban homes, and it wasn't built with enough parking

00:24:33.440 available to it. And so they just start taking your street parking. Yes, you have to be careful

00:24:38.460 when you live in a city, things need to be developed properly. But Alex McCoyle here says,

00:24:43.820 yes, I'm a Yimby, and I don't like the phrasing alone. It won't solve the housing crisis, but it will

00:24:49.360 help. Blanket upzoning combined with other reforms can solve the housing crisis. He even confronted me

00:24:55.660 outside of City Hall because I was somehow not like, you know, not being pro-freedom by not being in

00:25:01.580 favor of blanket upzoning, blanket rezoning. And he argued that developers or anyone who owns property

00:25:09.340 should have to pay extra taxes if they don't develop it for housing. It's like, yes, the libertarian is

00:25:14.380 now saying that you should have be taxed or have your property seized if you refuse to build housing

00:25:19.580 on your own property. You know why someone may not want to build something on a piece of property?

00:25:24.200 It's because the taxes are quite high. So unless you have something in mind for it, you may just let

00:25:30.260 the land sit fallow for a while. Freedom allows people to not do something. When you start defining

00:25:37.440 freedom, that everyone has freedom for housing. And that's something that Farkas even said in the

00:25:41.540 debate. He said that, oh, you know, it's a we need to recognize that housing is a human right.

00:25:45.920 It's not because guess what? We can't provide housing like that. If housing was like air and we

00:25:52.940 can be like, oh, you need housing? Here is housing. And then housing just materializes on the edge of

00:25:57.420 the city for yourself. Fair enough. We can do that. Housing can't be a human right. A lot of things can't

00:26:02.500 be a human right because someone has to provide it to you. And that person also has a family to feed

00:26:07.880 and a business to run and they can't just make like below market housing. Farkas is in fact in favor of

00:26:13.760 rent control because he believes in all new developments. They should have to make 10 to 15

00:26:18.140 to 20% of housing be below market value, that it must be served below the actual price the market

00:26:24.900 would set for it, which means one of two things happen. Either the developer just loses a bunch

00:26:29.820 of money and they become more economically unstable or they have to increase the pricing of all the

00:26:35.220 housing that's not below market. And so what you end up having is you have below market housing for

00:26:39.760 some people and then you have luxury prices for everybody else. It's stupid and it doesn't

00:26:44.320 actually provide new housing. And in fact, you will make it that developers are more hesitant to

00:26:48.620 build stuff because it's harder to get it built. You have to do all this extra paperwork. You have to

00:26:52.780 make all these extra agreements. It's foolish. Fark at least has the great idea. You get rid of

00:26:58.740 blanket rezoning and you make it easier to get a permit. So yes, you have to build single detached homes

00:27:04.020 homes in areas zoned for single detached homes, but you won't be waiting 300 days to actually get

00:27:09.960 approval. We'll try and make it within weeks that you get the rubber stamp and you can go for it.

00:27:14.180 That's what you need to do. You just need to make it that the developers can get to work faster.

00:27:18.200 In fact, the developers will be happier with that. The way that blanket rezoning worked is that it was

00:27:24.220 like a bribe to the developers because the city doesn't want to cut its permitting department. The city

00:27:28.380 never wants to cut anything. And so instead of cutting the permitting department and speeding up

00:27:34.180 the permitting time just by just slashing all the rules, requiring less staff and all this,

00:27:38.920 instead they're saying, okay, you still have to jump through all the 10,000 different hoops,

00:27:43.160 but if you do so, we'll let you build a sixplex rather than two single family detached houses.

00:27:49.600 Developers would rather just build the single family detached houses. It's better for the reputations

00:27:54.200 and people like them better. As long as they can build them fast, they're good. But if it's

00:27:58.280 going to take the same amount of time to build a single family detached house or a triplex,

00:28:02.140 they're going to build the triplex in order to actually make some profit off of these things.

00:28:06.960 Not that they're not profiting on other things, but you know, you got to have to profit quite a bit

00:28:10.860 to make building a house over months and months and months worth your while. You don't do it for

00:28:15.140 just maybe $10,000 at the end of the day. Well, I've been talking for quite a while now, but yeah,

00:28:22.580 overall, I fully endorse Sonia Sharp. I took a photo with her the other day. Yes,

00:28:26.760 she will stand with me in a photo because in fact, she does not dislike me at all.

00:28:30.720 In fact, their team did a good amount of PI work for me in finding out who was harassing me from

00:28:36.080 Jeff Davison's campaign and trying to dox me. She's great on police. She wants to hire 500 new police

00:28:41.440 officers. Police Association endorsed her. She's actually wanting to cut wasteful spending. It's

00:28:46.660 quite good. Everyone else sometimes has a good platform point, but either I don't trust them because

00:28:51.620 of their record or it's mealy-mouthed, vague nonsense about how we need to live within our

00:28:56.700 means. We need to respect taxpayers. It's like, okay, are you going to cut anything? Well, no,

00:29:02.300 I'm not going to cut anything, but I'm going to respect the heck out of taxpayers. That means

00:29:06.320 nothing to me. Anyways, I'm going to finally get off my butt, guys, and the next day, I will have a

00:29:12.640 full endorsement list for all of the ridings. I can even probably dispel out of a bunch of them

00:29:17.440 right now. I know people are asking me about Edmonton. Edmonton, honestly, it's such a hole

00:29:21.860 right now. Andrew Knack has a big lead. I'd probably endorse Raheem Jaffer, even though he's in like

00:29:27.560 third place or something like that. Cartmel, you maybe would have to vote for. I would say you're

00:29:33.920 going to have to wait because that race seems sluggish, and it may be that a lot of people

00:29:37.640 decide who they're voting for, not until the very end. They're like 50% people undecided in that race.

00:29:42.300 Oh, actually, I didn't even get to the polling numbers, guys. We are now going to get to the polling

00:29:46.280 numbers 30 minutes into the video because that's how much crap's been going down here.

00:29:52.000 Here is the current polling numbers from Janet Brown, who is a great pollster. Right now, we got

00:29:57.760 Jeremy Farkas at 27%, John Deck at 23%, Sharp at 23%, Jeff Davison at 16%, and Brian Thiessen at 8%.

00:30:07.280 And I want to address Jeff's people here in terms of his supporters. Even if you think that he's

00:30:12.720 actually become a conservative firebrand, which I very much don't think, he can't win.

00:30:18.440 You're not going to go from, there are 34% of people undecided, and yes, if he won 100% of those

00:30:23.120 people, he'd win, but that's not going to happen. What is he going to change the way he's been doing

00:30:27.140 his campaign? Is he suddenly going to get an influx of $200,000 before the end of the race

00:30:31.980 to boost himself up? There is not the bandwidth left in this race in order for him to win. In fact,

00:30:38.520 federal and provincial conservatives are coming in and endorsing

00:30:43.300 Sonia Sharp. You have people like Stephanie Cousy, Javloy Majumdar, you have provincial people

00:30:50.100 coming in for her. It's been quite good, the recent conservative endorsements for Sharp where

00:30:54.980 they're not there for Jeff. He can't win. He's 11 points behind Farkas, and I don't think he's

00:30:59.660 going to turn this thing around. Brian Thiessen, I'm happy to see him in the race because he's hurting

00:31:03.700 Sharp and Farkas, but Gondek has been completely stalled out, if not falling, and Jeremy Farkas

00:31:10.220 has maybe been gaining a little bit over time, but I would say that he's mostly been stalled

00:31:15.220 out. He kind of spawned in this race at the front and has not moved since. He's like a car

00:31:21.000 that spawned 100 meters from the finish line, but has been broken down the entire time with

00:31:26.360 no forward momentum towards it. It's like he's been having to push his car because, frankly,

00:31:30.920 as people find out who he's become, they don't want what he's selling. Whereas Gondek,

00:31:36.320 or sorry, Sharp, I've been supporting her, and many of you've been supporting her since

00:31:40.380 she started this race in fourth place, and now she is in second, and I believe when you

00:31:44.920 actually do the decimal points on where she's at, she actually is, in fact, in second in

00:31:48.760 front of Gondek, and she's the only one who's actually moving forward. So if you don't have

00:31:53.400 a Sharp sign yet, go into the description below if you're in Calgary and get yourself a

00:31:58.160 Sonia Sharp sign. She's doing great. She'd make a great mayor, and again, I think most

00:32:03.960 of the community's first candidates are quite good. The one ward where I don't endorse the

00:32:08.900 community's first candidate would be in Ward 10. In Ward, yeah, yeah, it's Ward 9 or 10.

00:32:14.860 I believe it's, I believe it's 9. In Ward 9, I'm endorsing Gargar. I think Gargar is quite

00:32:21.860 good, a very pro-police candidate, though he wins my vote over there. I'm in Ward 6. There

00:32:27.320 is no community's first candidate, so I'm endorsing Joanne Burse out there. In Ward 14,

00:32:33.200 I think that you could either go between, I believe it's Leighton, Leighton, or what is his

00:32:40.420 name? Landon Johnson, or Keener, the Keener guy. There's a lot of people where sometimes I like two

00:32:48.080 people in a riding, or a ward, so it's difficult, but that's the current numbers. Sonia and Gondek

00:32:54.480 are close to Farkas. They're effectively in a three-way, neck-and-neck race, but if you're the 1.00

00:32:59.640 incumbent mayor as Gondek and you're not way out in front, you're probably going to lose.

00:33:03.800 It's easy to win re-election as the incumbent. You have the highest name recognition, and the fact

00:33:08.220 that she's struggling to try and even get in second place is really pathetic, so I think that

00:33:13.640 most of the momentum here is in Sharpe's favor. Again, Farkas has as much name recognition as Gondek,

00:33:19.680 and he, if he was winning, he should be in the 30s. He should be in the high 30s, but he's not,

00:33:25.040 because as people really look at what he's all about these days, he's about high program spending.

00:33:29.900 He's about woke initiatives. He wants to do a hate tracker in Calgary. He said that during a Reddit AMA,

00:33:36.860 which is a great reason to never do a Reddit AMA. You will get the dumbest questions in your entire life,

00:33:41.880 because everyone there is WOKE in all caps, but that's who Farkas has become. He is a woke guy who

00:33:47.960 cares about identity, who thinks that the government is the one that drives prosperity

00:33:52.640 through spending and programs and all that stuff. We just need someone who's going to cut wasteful

00:33:57.280 spending so we can move towards actually cutting taxes for a change in the city.

00:34:01.920 But anyways, with that all being said, thank you guys for watching the video,

00:34:05.740 and I will see you guys next time. Hopefully on the website, I will have an endorsement list for

00:34:11.720 those who haven't voted yet in the early polling. I will also try and endorse a list of school board

00:34:16.580 trustees like Jennifer Stewart in six and seven, and I think it's like Dar Zouk in 12 and 14 I like

00:34:25.280 as well, but I will have a full list. This video has already gone long enough worth 34 minutes, but

00:34:30.740 hopefully you'll understand. Complicated topic. I got attacked, so I had to talk a little bit more

00:34:34.980 about it. And with that being said, see you guys next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 11, 2025

Woke Calgary mayor candidate ATTACKS ME after his lead drops in polls!

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