A Message for CANADA — ALBERTA INDEPENDENCE Doesn’t Care What You Think
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A message to people in Canada who think they re accomplishing something by insulting people in the independence movement? We don t care. We are not Canadians anymore here in Alberta, we are Albertans first and foremost. Canada isn t even in the picture for us anymore.
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A message to people in Canada who think they're accomplishing something by insulting people in the independence movement?
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 3.30 a.m., Monday, February the 9th.
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Hope you're having a great start to your Monday and a great start to your work week with the big blue mug of coffee this morning.
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And I woke up this morning thinking, you know, it almost feels like the dog days of summer right now,
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In summertime, when politicians go out, they call it the rubber chicken circuit.
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They get to go to a lot of barbecues and eat a lot of rubber chicken.
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Now, there are things going on in federal politics and in Canada right now,
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but overall things are a little quieter than they have been.
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You've got Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives reaching across the aisle to try to assist the government.
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Jamil Javani goes down to talk to his friend J.D. Vance in the United States.
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Good article in the National Post about that today as they're trying to, you know,
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trying to rebuild and trying to win the next election.
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I woke up this morning and not much happening right now.
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What's really happening in the most interesting place in the country is here in Alberta.
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Alberta is driving the dialogue across the country right now
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because of the independence movement right here, which is growing on a daily basis.
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As I said in my video that I put up, I think it was yesterday morning,
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Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I think God is on the independent side.
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Because for the most part, people who are having to sign up,
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And generally, at this time of the year in February, it's minus 30 degrees.
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It hit 14, 15 over the weekend here in Calgary.
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And it's been like this for at least three weeks out of the last month and a half.
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But what people don't understand is that we really don't care what the rest of Canada thinks
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As I said off the top of this video, we don't care what you're thinking.
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As a matter of fact, when you call us traitors, many of us see that as a badge of honor.
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Because we've come to the realization that we don't want to be part of Canada anymore.
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And it's amazing how polluted my X timeline is.
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Every day I go there, the things that we're being told.
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And the misinformation that's being spread around.
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Great article in the Western Standard, which I'm going to go into in just a moment
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and read a little bit of that for you about the dirty tricks that are coming for Alberta.
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But people out here really don't care what you think.
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The keyboard warriors out east who are insulting us with the nastiest of things
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You just don't understand what's going on out here.
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I'm going to go through a few tweets on X in just a moment.
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And I'll go through that Western Standard article.
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And we're expecting anything and everything out here.
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Here's something you need to understand if you live in Canada.
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And my friends and independents watching this right now will understand exactly what I'm
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Canada isn't even in the picture for us anymore.
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And this is a growing feeling out here that you don't understand.
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In that order, Canada isn't even in the picture anymore.
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And no amount of threats and insults and promises, even pipelines or memorandums of understanding
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The more you insult us and threaten us, the stronger we get out here.
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It's unbelievable, the things that we're seeing here.
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Just before I get to these tweets, on a weekly basis, somebody will say to me, somebody in
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the independence movement will say to me, John, do you remember the 1995 referendum in
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And they say, do you remember how people treated Quebec and the people in Quebec at that point?
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I was at the unity rally in Montreal just prior to the 1995 referendum.
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It's kind of the way we're treated when it comes to our economy.
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We've got Michael Gerald Gibbs here with every virtue signal possible.
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One thing no one is talking about is the feelings of the rest of Canada.
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Do you care about the feelings of the people here in Alberta?
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We're in no mood to kiss Alberta's ass or hold your hands through this.
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Alberta is leaving its abusive relationship with Canada.
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Everyone who loves Alberta and who loves Canada needs to volunteer here, please.
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Now, for those of you who don't know, there's this group here that had a petition signing campaign
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Thomas Lukaszek, who used to be the deputy premier of the province, is leading this up.
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Ask somebody who's part of this movement in Alberta why Alberta should stay and then say,
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you can't use patriotism and they've got nothing.
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And I've got 25 reasons why Alberta should leave.
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Alberta separatists, I'm genuinely asking, tell me specifically how Alberta leaving Canada
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Money, healthcare, pensions, borders, trade, not vibes, not slogans, not Trudeau.
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If this is a serious plan, the details should be easy.
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The whole plan, costed out, laid out in numbers, educate yourself.
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And this is the draft, fully costed fiscal plan for an independent Alberta.
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Maybe instead of being a keyboard warrior who lives in the rest of Canada, you should learn
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That's because 70% of the population of Canada lives in Eastern Canada.
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The East decides our elections, the West has no say.
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We don't vote liberals in who vote against our prosperity.
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Back then, it was a place of leadership and opportunity.
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Now, it's just a bunch of idiots and shitty cowboy hats that hate Canada.
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You whine because of a 40% increase in oil production in a decade because of liberals.
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Well, let me explain something to you here, Roddy.
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Any of the oil production that's an increase, this was all decided on about 20 years ago.
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And some of the companies managed to hang in there through all of the regulations of the Liberal Party, most of which came in around 2015 when Trudeau got in.
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These people, it took them 20 years to get their oil production up because it's so dysfunctional to get things done here in Canada.
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Do you realize about $500 billion in investments have been lost in Alberta over the last about 10 years because of the Liberals?
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We would be rich beyond belief if we could leave.
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In fact, Alberta would be one of the richest countries in the world.
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We have trillions of dollars in natural resources below our feet and we can't get it out.
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I'm not going to go on too long, but you get my point.
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The only ones who want to separate are Americans living in Alberta.
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I don't mean Americans with a U.S. passport living in Alberta.
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Well, where do you come up with a number like this, Markham?
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There's a saying, lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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We see a growing movement of people here in Alberta.
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Albertans have more in common with people who live just south of us in the United States
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Okay, so you've got Alberta separation with this group of ladies here signing people up
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And this person, handmade for the Republic of whatever, you can say it as many times as
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Do you even know what the definition of treason is?
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Treason is the betrayal of allegiance to one's country, typically involving overt acts to
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overthrow the government, harm the sovereign, or assist enemy forces.
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We will abide by what happens during the referendum in October.
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Is your side going to do that if we vote to leave?
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Let's bookend this with Michael Gerald Gibbs once again, Mr. He, Him.
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The Quebec referendum sparked a flight of capital that Quebec never recovered from.
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Toronto snatched away from Montreal its status as the financial and cultural hub of Canada,
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Alberta is facing rapid permanent hits to its economy and drawing power if it goes ahead with
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Well, you know what's really interesting about this, Gerald, is the fact that over the last
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several weeks, we've had tens of billions of dollars in investment in Alberta.
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And here's the real uncomfortable thing for people like you.
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And it's people like David Eby in BC that have driven investment away from Alberta.
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As I mentioned earlier in this video, $500 billion in investment.
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Now, let's take a look at the article from the Western Standard.
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If you're in the independence movement and you aren't subscribing to the Western Standard,
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The dirty tricks being used to kill Alberta's independence vote.
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Mainstream and alt-media outlets on both sides of the border are working overtime to persuade
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you that President Trump and his administration are engaged in some shadowy, nefarious plot
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to interfere with and perhaps undermine Canadian sovereignty.
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After all, he did say that Canada should be the 51st state.
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And I'll repeat, we do not want to become the 51st state.
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The leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project have met with officials in Washington, D.C.
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It remains unclear whether they met with Trump.
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According to both a U.S. government spokesperson and representatives of the APP, the discussions
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concern the hypothetical feasibility of a line of credit in the event the Alberta independence
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There does not seem to have been any discussions of involving the U.S. in the independence campaign
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using U.S. resources in an independence campaign or the APP requesting binding ties
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Put simply, they were exploring the same kind of standby credit facility that many readers
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British Columbia Premier David Eby inaccurately depicted the meetings as and labeled the simple
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act of meeting U.S. officials to discuss a line of credit is treason.
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Oh, and then with all due respect, as I said earlier to the Premier, perhaps he should consult
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the Oxford English Dictionary before hurling such a loaded term.
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Far from treason, this is the APP leaders acting with foresight and being responsible towards
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Albertans should take comfort knowing that, unlike in Ottawa, adults are in charge at the
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I speak to them here regularly on this channel.
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Meanwhile, as the collection of signatures for an Alberta independence referendum presses
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ahead, undeniable images of large crowds braving the cold to add their name to the petition
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The politicians and the legacy media are intensifying their efforts to downplay the Alberta
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They dismiss it as fringe, branding its supporters as bad Canadians or worse.
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The objective seems clear, disenfranchise as many voters as possible by demoralizing
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Albertans, suppressing turnout, and engineering the referendum's failure.
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To that end, Prime Minister Carney met with Thomas Lukasik, who I mentioned earlier.
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The use of the recycled campaign slogans, threat to Canadian sovereignty and treason, is calculated
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The insinuation of President Trump's involvement is a transparent attempt to taint the independence
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Furthermore, the discontent is spreading because other provinces see the problems.
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Quebec's sovereignty movement is once again in the headlines, and Saskatchewan is openly
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Even parts of B.C. are looking to Alberta for examples of how to push back against federal
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I'm waiting to talk to somebody from the B.C. independence movement.
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I had an interview set up, but he got the flu, so I'll hopefully have that for you later this
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Albertans should embrace themselves as each milestone of the independence initiative approaches.
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The use of propaganda will intensify, complete with the relentless wall-to-wall messaging that
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What they will not do is offer logical arguments, clear reasons, or even genuine policy changes
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to address the intolerable situation that the Ottawa elite has imposed on the province.
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In contrast, the APP, the Independence Party of Alberta, the Wildrose Independence Party of
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Alberta, and others offer a list of reasons in accompanying arguments for self-determination
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Regardless of one supporting or disagreeing with the independence initiative, the sorry
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state of affairs is that one party is peddling propaganda.
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I say once again to the people in Canada, and my friends in independence will say the same
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We want what is best for our families and our province and our soon-to-be country, Alberta.