Woke Calgary mayor candidate ATTACKS ME after his lead drops in polls!
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Jeremy Farkas attacked me during a radio debate. I m not on the campaign team, but I'm very friendly with Councillor Sonia Sharp and have been supporting her campaign since she was nominated for the Calgary mayoral election.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, back with another update on the race to see who is going to be the
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next mayor of Calgary. So, it took a very strange turn yesterday when there was a radio debate
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hosted by Ryan Jesperson, and the woke candidate Jeremy Farkas decided that it would be a great
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idea to attack myself, Kian Bextie, Theo Fleury, and David Parker when he was allowed to ask a
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question to the candidate that I am backing, Sonia Sharp. I don't know why he did this. If anything,
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it just goes to show that they're very insecure about their chances of winning. Farkas is in fact
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in the lead right now, but I would say that he's stalled out in the lead. His car got to the front
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of the race, and now it's broken down, and Sonia Sharp is very likely to overtake him, and so he
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started slinging mud by implying that I am very bad. And I do have to give, you know, him some
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credit for putting me at the top of his hate list. It probably demonstrates that all of the viewers of
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this channel have been taking out a lot of signs for Sonia Sharp and at the doors. Probably videos
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I make get brought up, and they're very mad about it, so they tried to bait Sonia into condemning me.
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It was not going to happen. I'm very friendly with Sonia, and I need to play this clip in just a
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second here. It's absolutely hilarious, but we will be getting to the polling later on in this video,
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and I was happy to see Janet Brown actually conducted a poll for the mayor's race. She is
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easily the most accurate pollster in Canada. She got the Alberta provincial election within decimal
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points, and this is not a rare thing for her. She's always quite accurate, but in that last Alberta
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provincial election, she had gotten every single party within one percent of what they actually got
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on election day, and she did that poll like a week and a half before the actual election
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took place. She's just very good at actually getting to the people likely to vote in all the
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different regions. But anyways, but before we get into it, guys, I just want to remind you, if you
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like the channel, like the video, subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber, and especially if you want
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to see more updates like this. And then also leave a comment on what you think about all this.
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And if you live in the city of Calgary, I always make sure to pin a link for Sonia Sharp's lawn sign
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request. If you guys want to go request a lawn sign, definitely get one if you don't have one yet.
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The science of it is usually if you put a lawn sign in front of your house, it usually reminds one of
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your neighbors to get out and vote, and maybe vote for the person that you did, because they probably
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have quite a bit of respect for your opinions. Again, we've probably placed around 1,000 lawn
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signs for Sonia Sharp around the city of Calgary. And what we're about to see here with Jeremy Farkas
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probably just demonstrates that people like myself and Ian Bextie at Juno News have been very
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effective in exposing him, as well as promoting Sonia Sharp. And again, I'm not on her campaign.
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In fact, I donated $1,000 to Sonia Sharp. And in fact, because Jeremy Farkas attacked me this way,
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I'm considering donating even more. Every attack I receive from Jeff Davison or Jeremy Farkas will
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result in more money for Sonia Sharp. But let's get into the clip here. I thought Ryan Jesperson
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actually put together quite a good debate. I wish the open debate sections were a bit longer, but you know,
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he's probably restricted by how long he has on the radio and how much of the campaigns were willing
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to be on the show. The question in front of Sonia Sharp. Yeah, for Councillor Sharp, I understand that
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you've been endorsed by Wyatt Claypool, Kian Bextie, Theo Fleury, and most recently, David Parker with
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Take Back Alberta. My question is, will you reject these endorsements? And if not, what is it about your
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political party and you personally, that draws these individuals to support your campaign?
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I'm going to let, I'm going to get to the answer from Sonia in just a second here.
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When I was running for the Calgary Signal Hill conservative nomination federally, I had lunch
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with Jeremy Farkas. I was running on the same things back then that I promote now. But he just does this,
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like, he asked this question to imply that myself and Kian Bextie and Fleury and Parker are all vaguely bad.
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He didn't cite anything any of us have said to suggest that we need to be distanced from. I know that Fleury can
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sometimes post things that are quite eccentric, and David Parker can even be controversial in some UCP circles.
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But that's more of internal politics kind of stuff. That's not because anyone has actually exposed a position
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like, we should hang all the liberals or something like that. None of us have ever said anything like that.
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But I'm pretty mainstream, if anything. Kian Bextie as well. Jeremy Farkas, again, is just upset that his campaign
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isn't going as well as he hoped, because we're going to get to his polling later. Although he's leading,
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everyone knows who he is. If he was really the golden son of this election, he would be way up in front.
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He's not, because people know who he is. People also know who the current Mayor Gondek is, and not that many
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people really like, they're heavily coasting by on their name recognition and not their policies.
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And I'm going to get into some of Jeremy Farkas' policies in just a second here, but I will let
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Sonia answer. And then I do want to get to her asking a question to Davison, because
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Farkas and Davison are like two sides of the same coin. Both of them are completely flip-flopping,
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but they're flip-flopping in opposite directions. One of them used to be conservative,
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like, i.e. Farkas, but has become an insane woke liberal. And the other, Jeff Davison,
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was a very woke liberal councillor who's pretending to be conservative now.
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Thanks for the question, Jeremy. What I'll say is, I can't really control who endorses me. I actually
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was also just endorsed by the Latino community. And I think that's just a sign that I can actually get
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endorsed from all walks of life and political spectrums. And so what I'll say about the political
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party, we have all candidates from all, like you, full political spectrum on your own team.
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Except the difference is, I have a team. And I not just have a team, I have three current members of
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council that are endorsing me for mayor. And really what it shows, and I'm a leader, and it shows that
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I can build a team. And we all believe in the same things to get the job done. So, you know, people want
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to endorse me. I can't stop that. But I am just very targeted on my focus on how to lead Calgary.
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And I am here to lead everybody, regardless of what political banner you might fly under.
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There's no conservative way to fill a pothole, or progressive way to fill a pothole. Just do it
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I've had people DM me or tweet at me on X. I still call it Twitter sometimes. And they're
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like, oh, Sonia should have defended you and Kian and whatnot. It's like, no, it's a stupid attack.
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Slip by the attack. Don't start justifying, or it makes it sound like there was a reason
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that we need to be defended. We don't. Nobody probably even really knows who I am, in the sense
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that if you watch the channel, you know who I am. If you're in conservative, independent
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media, you know who I am, maybe. But it's not like the average radio viewer is going to
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say like, oh, Wyatt Claypool can't vote for Sonia Sharp anymore. Some random conservative
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guy likes her. You know, Kian Bexty. I can't believe Kian Bexty likes her. Like, nobody actually
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has a bad impression of us two, unless you're on the far out progressive fringe, which this
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is demonstrating how woke Jeremy Farkas and his team are that they thought this was going
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And even for Theo Fleury's eccentricities as a person, and I wouldn't agree with everything
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he posts, the guy's been through a lot in his life, and he does a lot of positive work.
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The idea that you're going to run down that guy is pretty gross. And even with David Parker,
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all of his controversies more have to do with internal UCP politics. I know he's pretty good
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friends with James Lindsay. He is, in fact, an opponent of like the woke right. He's not like
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a Christian nationalist or anything like that. In fact, I'd probably agree with like 80
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percent of the things he believes, 20 percent probably internal governance stuff that we
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disagree on. It's so dumb that he even attempted to do this. And what he just basically showed,
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he put all of his cards on the table and says, I'm very insecure about my ability to win.
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And there is no progressive influencers that are doing Jeremy Farkas any good right now,
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because guess what? The progressives have become extremely unpopular in Calgary. The only way
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Farkas was going to win was being able to keep up the charade that he still somehow the 2021 version
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of himself. In fact, Rick Bell of the Calgary Herald wrote a great article talking about the
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differences between Farkas 2021 and Farkas 2025. And we're going to get to the Jeff Davison clip here
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in just a second. But again, these guys have flip-flopped in opposite directions. I actually
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liked most of Farkas's record when he was councillor between 2017 and 2021. It was quite good. The
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problem is, though, is when you basically disown your own platform, your own record, yeah, I have
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no confidence that there's any conservative bone left in your body when you can't actually stand up
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for the things that you voted for. Even when he's called out, that's the funny thing. Gondek,
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who is the woke mayor. So we have two woke people to top the polls, and we have one conservative and
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Sonia Sharp right now, which is good. They can keep splitting each other's vote. But it's gotten
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to the point where Gondek attacks Farkas for trying to crib her style, basically. That, hey, Farkas,
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stop trying to steal my woke record from me. Because even though Farkas voted against the Green Line,
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which was good to vote against, he now says, no, no, no, I voted against the Green Line because I
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wanted to do woke stuff like invest in housing and do progressive things. That's actually what
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I wanted to do. That's the only reason I voted against the Green Line. And I know people like
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Ike Sharp somewhat support the Green Line now, but there's a difference between supporting it before
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shovels ever went into the ground and at least having to support some version of it because we've
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already spent most of the money. So we kind of have to, you know, we've already allocated the money.
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So we kind of have to finish the project, but let's just try and make this thing work.
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So those are just two different positions to, you know, clarify. And I don't even agree. I don't
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think that Sonia's record's perfect. She voted for the climate emergency right when she came into
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office. It was the first vote. She thought it was just some random declaratory motion. And she even
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said, I regretted that vote and I will repeal it and get rid of all the climate spending. So good.
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Again, I don't require people to have perfect ideological records. I actually like that someone can make a
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mistake and say, that was a mistake. I'm not going to do that again. And in fact, let's make up for it
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by repealing it, getting rid of all of the spending attached to it. But for the most part, the rest of
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Sonia's record has been really solid across the board. Voted against every tax increase, actually
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been trying to find cost saving measures in government. It voted against blanket rezoning.
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It's been overall very, very good. Jeff Davison, on the other hand, pretends he doesn't have the record
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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
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Jeremy and some of his policies. And I appreciate that. We will now transition. Sonia Sharp asking the
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question to Jeff Davison. Okay. All right, Jeff. Jeremy gets criticized for totally being inconsistent
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with his past record, which is rightfully so. But I want to ask you the same question. The Jeff Davison
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four years ago as a counselor didn't match the Jeff Davison you're presenting today. Back then you
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voted for every tax increase. You supported defunding the police and supported weakening
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counsel's oversight of senior administration. So how is it today you position yourself as a tax
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fighting police pro governance expert that voters can suddenly trust? And so how can you square that
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circle? And, you know, how can voters see past that? Thanks for the question. I mean, I got into this
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game because frankly, you're not listening. And the issues in Calgary have actually changed. I mean,
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when it comes to defunding the police, sorry, that that's a big lie. And you continue to perpetuate
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that lie. You constantly tell. I will be debunking this in a second. It's the dumbest talking point
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ever. He's basically throwing the police under the bus or trying to at least protect a little bit of
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their. It's not to perpetuate lies, but you do the same thing. The police chief asked us for support.
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When we think about one of the biggest problems right now happening in Calgary, it's public safety.
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And it's about mental health and addiction challenges. And at the time, Calgary police
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were looking for new tools to figure out how we respond differently on the ground in Calgary.
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Oh, okay. And this is, this is, I like, I like the term and it's, it's from James Lindsay,
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who I mentioned earlier. It's called telling the truth falsely. Were the Calgary police probably
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looking for other tools to deal with combat addiction and mental health problems on streets?
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Probably. That didn't require to defund the police. The police knew that most of the council,
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including Jeff Davison and one of his big boosters, Ward Sutherland, were big progressives who were
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going to vote with the BLM movement to basically defund the police. It was, they were defunding them
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$20 million and for the next couple of years in 2022 and 2023. And so what they effectively did was
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they said, okay, we know you're going to try and defund us. So how about you take this $20 million
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and at least put it towards some mental health and addictions initiative that we can at least
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somewhat still control. We can't use it for policing, but at least it will kind of go towards something
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that's public safety related, even though it wasn't very effective. They at least wanted to
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protect their budget in that way. Seeing the train coming down the line that was going to slam into
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them and try and take away a bunch of their money. They're saying, okay, you're going to take $20
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million away from us and at least put it towards something slightly public safety related. Because
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by the way, five of the council are still voted against defunding the police, including Farkas,
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who now would probably disown himself for doing that. But you had people like Urquhart and DeMogg,
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and you had Farkas and a couple of others, Meglioka and Chu. They all voted against defunding the
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police back then because they said, no, no, the police deserve all of the money. We don't need
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to move it towards any other programs. They need the money. We need more police on the streets.
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So regardless of what CPS is telling us to do to defend their budget from just being totally ripped
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away from them, we want you to keep your entire budget and only for policing. But Jeff acts like they
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came to him and begged him to defund them. And that's the thing I don't like about Davidson at
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all. If he said, I used to be a liberal, I used to be more of a liberal counselor. I've seen the
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error of my ways and I'm here to do things in a more conservative way. I would respect that.
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But when you always have a cute little excuse for why you did the wrong thing, get out of here.
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It's just pathetic. His campaign team has been the nastiest this entire time. I'm having to file
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a police report against one of his campaign organizers for doxing me or saying I should
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get shot in the head instead of, or I say I should just get shot, not in the head part,
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sometimes just flourish, I say. But I should have been shot instead of Charlie Kirk. It's nuts.
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Like posting my phone number all over social media using an anonymous account and telling people
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to call it. Like it's been wild. And like he endorsed George Shahal in 2021, the porch pirate
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who's stealing conservative literature out of the doors. He back here, this is Jeff Davison
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back in, I think what it was this like, probably 2021 sometime there. And he says, this is the
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right move. We're pushing 80% vaccinated in Calgary. We can't let Calgarians be held hostage
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by Farkas's anti-vax agenda. The vast majority of Calgarians support these measures. We should
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listen to what Calgarians are telling us and keep people safe. What the heck? He was a big
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vaccine mandate guy. And again, the hilarious part is that Farkas wouldn't come out and say
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that he took the right position in opposing the mandates. And Farkas is somebody like myself.
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I was vaccinated, but I also opposed the mandates tooth and nail the entire time because it's stupid.
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You can't force people to take a medical treatment that you do not want. You can't even give everyone
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ibuprofen without hurting someone because some people can't take it. And again, I can tell you
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that Farkas would not be the guy to defend his position on that anymore. This is his campaign
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team. He still has two masked people in the year 2025. This was like a month and a half ago.
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They are still wearing masks full time on that campaign. Those are his two managers wearing the
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masks. It's been wild. And I'm so happy I went and dug up that photo from a couple months ago of
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his campaign because that one's gone around so much because it's a perfect encapsulation
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of what the Jeremy Farkas campaign has turned into. It is WOKE in all caps. And we will get to his
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website in a little bit to prove that even further. Oh, and by the way, Jeff Davison, and I have another
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video in the past. I could go back and get the screenshot of it. He's changed his website since,
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but it's been preserved on my website. He used to have a land acknowledgement at the front and
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center of his website. And I had one of his campaign managers say, oh, it was just a staffer
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who did that. We didn't tell them to do it. Really? You didn't notice something on the front page of
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your website for months and a staffer just decided to do that themselves? No way. Don't you have a
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conservative staff who wouldn't have done something virtue signaling like that? But whatever. I'll keep
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playing Jeff talk. You know, I've supported police all my life. When they said, Jeff, we need mental
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health support for officers. I supported it. When they said we need body-worn cameras for officers,
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I supported it. When Calgary said we need more police helicopters because Calgary has the most
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widely flown choppers in the world. I supported it. I am pro-police. I am pro-cleaning up our streets.
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And the fact that you continue to push this misinformation shows me that you're actually no better than
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Mr. Farkas is. So please stop calling him a liar if you're not going to do the same. Okay, Jeff.
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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
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even know. The funniest thing here, I'll play a little bit of it. Okay. Jeff Davison is in fourth place.
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Brian Thiessen is in fifth place. Look at this. Jeff Davison posed a question to Brian Thiessen.
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Sure. Brian, Calgarians are tired of paying more and getting less.
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Why is he? It doesn't even matter. I watched the full debate. It was the most boring question ever
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with the most boring answer ever because it's Brian Thiessen who is like, I don't even know. He's
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like Nenshi 2.0. Actually, never mind. Farkas is Nenshi. Actually, no. Gondek is Nenshi 2.0.
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Farkas is Nenshi 3.0. And Brian Thiessen is Nenshi 4.0. And Thiessen has this tendency of
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talking like Nenshi where he kind of like throws his head back and forth like he's about to fall
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asleep and throwing his wrists out as he talks. It's weird. But the reason Jeff Davison asked a
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question to Brian Thiessen, in my opinion, is because if he asked a question to Sharp, to Gondek,
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or to Farkas, he knew that they were going to counterpunch him hard because he has no leg to
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stand on in those sorts of positions that he advocates for now. Whereas Brian Thiessen doesn't
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care. Brian Thiessen basically takes every single question in the direction of attacking
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Daniel Smith to try and get some of the anti-UCP NDP vote in the mayoral race. And you know
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what? I commend him for it because he's splitting the vote hard with Gondek and Farkas. He doesn't
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have a lot of the vote in the first place, but I'd rather it go to useless Brian Thiessen
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than Farkas or Gondek. But I have to read you this. And this is Farkas' platform. The entire
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thing, and they have these PDFs that are super long that you can read. It's all gobbledygook.
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And you can even just tell by the way the whole thing is made. The whole website. It just screams
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woke, progressive downtown campaign. But this isn't really what I want to talk about. I want
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to talk about a specific policy brief on the website that has just an absolute doozy at the end. And they
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could say, oh, well, why are you going down? And like, who cares? It's such a small little thing.
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It matters. This is on page four out of four on their housing brief. Point 25 is
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adopt a housing equity roadmap to ensure Calgary's housing systems work for racialized
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indigenous disabled newcomer and 2SLGBTQIA plus residents. Oh my goodness. He couldn't even
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just say LGBT. He had to say 2SLGBTQIA plus because two-spirit because they're indigenous must come
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first. That's literally why they do it. It's so, again, I pride myself. I've somehow made, as I attack
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him, I have somehow made Farkas' campaign better because the lady in the photo here with the mask on
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the left, I've seen her recently take the mask off. In the last six days, even though I've seen her at
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events still wearing the mask, and this is recent. These people aren't sick. The one guy, I have to go
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find the photo if I can get it. The one guy on the right there, his mask is like flower embroidered.
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This is something he obviously got custom made. It's not because a family member's sick. He's wearing
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this because it's a fashion statement and a political symbol. But recently, Farkas' team's
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probably said, can you please take the masks off? We're looking really woke right now. And they finally
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did it because even woke people eventually have to remember that imagistics matter.
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But now I want to take you over to something else because recently Farkas' people have been saying
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that, oh, secretly Sharp is in favor of blanket rezoning. No, she's not. She's in favor of something
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that's sensible. That once you repeal blanket rezoning, you will have to grandfather in some
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of the properties that were already approved for the duplex or the triplex where they've already
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broken ground and they've built part of the structure for the triplex. It was bad that this
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ever happened, but you would be in a big lawsuit as a city if you just suddenly took the developer's
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plans and you just ripped the carpet out from under them. You would have placed millions of dollars in
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taxpayer money. It's just one of those, you know, it's one of those attritional losses that when a
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bad idea is brought in, sometimes you have to let a little bit of it go forward in your repealing of
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it. You can't just basically say, no, no, no, stop it. Rip all these posts out of the ground.
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You're not building that. In an ideal world, yes, but you're going to go to court and a liberal judge
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is going to reward the developer millions of dollars and they're going to be able to build
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it anyways because, hey, they started building when they said they were allowed to. That's
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Farkas' big hit on her, except I really like that, again, communities first. I endorse them.
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I endorse Sonia 100%. I do like that they started using all my posts because all these screenshots of
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Farkas' team are all my people. And this is the stuff I was already pointing out.
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Communities first, who again is the Sonia Sharp party. It says, Sonia Sharp and Communities first
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standing with communities against blanket rezoning. Jeremy Farkas' top advisor pushing blanket rezoning.
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And they're talking about this gentleman right here that they have the arrow over top of,
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whose name is Alex McCoyle. I know him. He will call himself a libertarian, but he's one of these guys
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who's only in favor of freedom if he gets to define it in a leftward direction. You should have the
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freedom to do whatever you want as long as it's left wing. But he says right here in a post, and this
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post is from 2024 when the blanket rezoning stuff was starting up. He says, I am a Yimby, which is a
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yes in my backyard, the opposite of a Nimby. You know, Nimbyism can be bad where people constantly block
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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
00:24:13.740
be able to build anything ever anywhere. And it doesn't matter if we don't have the plumbing
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infrastructure or the parking for it. Oh, you can't block other people from building stuff.
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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
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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,
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yes, I'm a Yimby, and I don't like the phrasing alone. It won't solve the housing crisis, but it will
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help. Blanket upzoning combined with other reforms can solve the housing crisis. He even confronted me
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outside of City Hall because I was somehow not like, you know, not being pro-freedom by not being in
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favor of blanket upzoning, blanket rezoning. And he argued that developers or anyone who owns property
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should have to pay extra taxes if they don't develop it for housing. It's like, yes, the libertarian is
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now saying that you should have be taxed or have your property seized if you refuse to build housing
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on your own property. You know why someone may not want to build something on a piece of property?
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It's because the taxes are quite high. So unless you have something in mind for it, you may just let
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the land sit fallow for a while. Freedom allows people to not do something. When you start defining
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freedom, that everyone has freedom for housing. And that's something that Farkas even said in the
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debate. He said that, oh, you know, it's a we need to recognize that housing is a human right.
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It's not because guess what? We can't provide housing like that. If housing was like air and we
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can be like, oh, you need housing? Here is housing. And then housing just materializes on the edge of
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the city for yourself. Fair enough. We can do that. Housing can't be a human right. A lot of things can't
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be a human right because someone has to provide it to you. And that person also has a family to feed
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and a business to run and they can't just make like below market housing. Farkas is in fact in favor of
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rent control because he believes in all new developments. They should have to make 10 to 15
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to 20% of housing be below market value, that it must be served below the actual price the market
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would set for it, which means one of two things happen. Either the developer just loses a bunch
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of money and they become more economically unstable or they have to increase the pricing of all the
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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
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actually provide new housing. And in fact, you will make it that developers are more hesitant to
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build stuff because it's harder to get it built. You have to do all this extra paperwork. You have to
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make all these extra agreements. It's foolish. Fark at least has the great idea. You get rid of
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blanket rezoning and you make it easier to get a permit. So yes, you have to build single detached homes
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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.
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That's what you need to do. You just need to make it that the developers can get to work faster.
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In fact, the developers will be happier with that. The way that blanket rezoning worked is that it was
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like a bribe to the developers because the city doesn't want to cut its permitting department. The city
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never wants to cut anything. And so instead of cutting the permitting department and speeding up
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the permitting time just by just slashing all the rules, requiring less staff and all this,
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instead they're saying, okay, you still have to jump through all the 10,000 different hoops,
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but if you do so, we'll let you build a sixplex rather than two single family detached houses.
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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
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going to take the same amount of time to build a single family detached house or a triplex,
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they're going to build the triplex in order to actually make some profit off of these things.
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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
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just maybe $10,000 at the end of the day. Well, I've been talking for quite a while now, but yeah,
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overall, I fully endorse Sonia Sharp. I took a photo with her the other day. Yes,
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she will stand with me in a photo because in fact, she does not dislike me at all.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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numbers 30 minutes into the video because that's how much crap's been going down here.
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Here is the current polling numbers from Janet Brown, who is a great pollster. Right now, we got
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Jeremy Farkas at 27%, John Deck at 23%, Sharp at 23%, Jeff Davison at 16%, and Brian Thiessen at 8%.
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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
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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
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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
00:32:59.640
incumbent mayor as Gondek and you're not way out in front, you're probably going to lose.
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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.
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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
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hopefully you'll understand. Complicated topic. I got attacked, so I had to talk a little bit more
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about it. And with that being said, see you guys next time.