Accentuate the POSITIVE - When SO MUCH is Negative
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Summary
In this episode I talk about why we should focus on the positive things about Alberta independence, rather than the negative things about Canada. I also talk about the Alberta-Ottawa pipeline deal, and the Treaty 8 statement.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 3.32am, Friday, December the 12th. I hope you're having
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a great start to your Friday morning, one day away from the weekend. I do have my trusty big
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blue mug of coffee with me this morning. It is tasting very sweet. And I've been up since very
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early. I know a lot if you would say, John, 3.32 in the morning is very early. It is. But I've been
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up since shortly after one o'clock. And I laid in bed till almost 2.30, I guess, just seeing what
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was going on in the world. And I've been up for about an hour. And I was thinking this morning
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about something that I had been asked to do by some people in the independence movement. Now,
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you're seeing me with my Alberta Republic hat on. If you're in Canada, the country known as Canada,
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and don't live in Alberta, this has as much to do with you as it does with Alberta. But I've been
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asked by some people and suggested by people that we need to focus on the positive things of Alberta
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independence as opposed to continually focusing on the negative things of being part of Canada.
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And I think that's a good idea. So what I'm going to do going forward, every time I mention something
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negative about Canada, I'm going to talk something positive about Alberta independence. And I'm going
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to do that today. Okay, so that's the rule I'm going to go by in the future. Because I think it's
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hard to separate the two things. I think it's important to tell people what's going wrong
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in Canada. And that might get them more interested in the independence movement.
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So the first thing I'm going to do today, first positive thing, we're going to start on a positive
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note today. How would you like it if you paid less tax and were able to keep more of your money?
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Because if you look at this document right here, this is from the Alberta Prosperity Project,
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independence is costed out right here. They say within five years, we could have no income tax at all.
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I mean, that would save you or at least give you 30% more take home pay. So if you're sitting on the
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fence right now, how would you like it if your boss came to you yesterday and said, we're going to raise
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your wages by a third, you would love that it would change your life. So that's what Alberta
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independence can do for you. And there's been good news on the independence front over the last 24
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hours, I sent out a text. I hope he had his phone on do not disturb. I sent out a text this morning
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to somebody from the Alberta independence movement for an interview on what happened
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yesterday. We'll get to that in a moment. But I saw this story and here's the negative part that's
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coming, folks. Treaty 8 chiefs denounce Alberta-Ottawa pipeline agreement. That's the memorandum of
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understanding between Danielle Smith and Mark Carney. Here they are yesterday at a news conference.
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Treaty 8 grand chief Trevor Mercurdy had some strong words for Canada and Alberta.
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We have formally notified the Prime Minister that any further attempt by Canada, Alberta or industry
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to move ahead without us will result in immediate action. Those actions will include willfully
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withdrawing cooperation from joint initiatives, fully exercising our treaty, constitutional, political
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and legal mechanisms to defend our sovereignty. We are demanding that all actions stemming from this
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MOU and pipeline announcement be paused immediately until our free prior and informed consent is
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obtained. If this country believes in reconciliation, in treaty implementation, in respect for indigenous
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rights, then the federal government must uphold its highest legal and moral obligation. Treaty 8
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First Nations will not allow decisions about our lands and our future to be made without us.
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So the chief there suggesting some type of action, what that action could be. I don't know. It could be
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blockades. Threatening legal action if the feds ever agree to put a pipeline through, which I don't think
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they will. And this will be held up for years. You know, here's the thing. For every indigenous
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aboriginal group or whatever they're calling themselves these days, for every group that wants a pipeline,
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there's a group that doesn't. And those are the people that will hold this up forever.
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I've had lawyers here saying they don't have a constitutional right to block pipelines. They
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don't have a veto. Folks, I'm here to tell you, I think they have a veto. And I was thinking back
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this morning about this. Back on May 3rd, I was at the Alberta legislature and we had an
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independence rally back then. A couple of thousand people showed up. It was great. And the group that
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was there before us had booked the spot on the Alberta legislature steps. They had to leave to let us
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come in. But there was a group of aboriginal people on a hill to the right of the stage
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who yelled and screamed into a microphone constantly through our whole event to disrupt
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us. And there wasn't a cop. There wasn't anybody from the Alberta legislature. There wasn't an
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official in this country that would have walked across and told those people they had to get off
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the land because they didn't have a right to be there. And I remember saying to somebody at the
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time, they've got the native veto. Do you really think the federal government's going to go in
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and move a group of natives off land they think is their own in British Columbia?
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If a pipeline is okayed to go out to the West Coast, do you think that's going to happen? I don't
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think there's a freaking chance, despite the fact that they don't have a right to do it. They have
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the native veto. Now we're going to move on to the next thing. But before we move on to that,
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something positive about the Alberta independence movement. $47 billion of our money that we raise
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here in Alberta would stay here to fund better hospitals, schools, and roads if Alberta leaves.
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So that's the next positive thing. Then we move over to this. And I just want to say before I move
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over to this story that I have personal experience with this. I have personal experience with this.
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I had to stop recording for a minute to compose myself a little bit. I have personal experience with
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this next story. And I don't know where you stand on this issue. Whether you think it's okay for
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somebody who's elderly with cancer that isn't going to live, that's in pain, whether it's okay
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for them to decide when their life ends. I don't know how you feel about this, but we're doing far
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too much of this. That's what this procedure was about when it was passed, but we're doing this far
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too much. And we're offering this to people who have depression. We've become rather ghoulish here
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in this country. Then there's this story from Front Page Magazine. This is true. Canada's euthanasia
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kills 96% white people. And do you realize we've killed 75,000 people this way since 2016? And it's
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going up every year. And according to the story, we'd be doing a lot more of it if we could become more
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efficient with our health care system. Because as you know, our health care system isn't very
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efficient. I guess that's a saving grace that we're actually maybe saving some lives here
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because we're inefficient. And then there was this story earlier this week that turned my stomach.
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Glenn Beck, American broadcaster. The people who love the Canadian socialized health care system say
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how bad the United States system is. And you've got an American broadcaster trying to save a woman's
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life. This is one of the most heartbreaking interviews I have ever done. She wants to live.
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The husband of Jolene Van Alstyne tells me Jolene had planned to end her life through Canada's MAID
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program because she couldn't get the surgery she needed after eight years of incredible pain
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and loneliness. She doesn't want to do MAID, right? I mean, if there's another option.
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No. No. No, she doesn't. She wants to live. But when your life is absolutely stolen from you,
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stolen from you for eight years, and you suffer so much pain, depression and anxiety,
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I love her with all my heart. And I will do anything to get her the help she needs if it's out there and
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available. But at the same time, I can't blame her. It will break my heart. But to be honest with you,
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Glenn, if she's a strong girl, if it was me, I think I would have had a gun to my head long ago.
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Miles, you're not alone. And neither is Jolene. We'll find a way to make this happen if it is at
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all possible. We pray for you. There are millions of people who are praying for you now, and we'll do
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everything we can. Thank you, Miles. I appreciate that so much. God bless you.
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Let me put this into perspective for you. Mark Kearney, Prime Minister of Canada, liberal,
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spent $736,000 of your money on a photo op to go to the Gaza peace agreement signing. And this woman
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can't get the health care she needs in this country. She's got to go to the United States.
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And we'll move on to the next thing. And just another point here, a good point about Alberta
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independence. No more woke propaganda in classrooms when it comes to your kids. We're already doing
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that here in Alberta. And if we get our independence, we're going to do the same thing in our new
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country. Which takes us to the next point. Here is Scott Moe. He's the Premier of Saskatchewan. The
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federal government gave next year's equalization amounts to provincial finance ministers. This map is
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clear which provinces are driving Canada's economy and how the equalization formula disincentivizes
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economic growth. The West is paying for the East, and in particular, Quebec. And they've got the gall
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to tell us that we can't develop our resources out here. They should be down on their knees thanking us.
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We are their benefactors. And then we move along to our next good point. Your voice will actually
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matter in elections. It does not matter right now. Every Albertan knows that the elections are
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determined by the East. We've got no control of who runs this country anymore. If we're our own
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country, your voice will matter in elections. Moving on to the next thing, there is this. And
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this just happened yesterday. This is disgraceful.
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This is the most disgraceful thing that an MP can do. Walk across the aisle. He has betrayed the people
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who voted for him. Now the liberals are one step away. One step. Well, maybe 20 steps across the
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aisle to a majority if one more conservative goes. And I can see it happening.
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Now, what's been happening over the last several years, you have to remember, is the liberals have
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survived by getting support from other parties. They did it with Jagmeet Singh and the NDP.
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And the NDP got everything they wanted because the liberals had to kowtow to them. They've actually
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gone to the bloc to get support for Bill C-9. They're not going to have to do that anymore if
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they get a majority. Think about that. They'll do whatever they want. There are more C-bills coming
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down the line. A lot of them are going to take away your free speech rights. And then there's this.
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Just imagine, this is part of the liberal website. It's still up there. This is their plan.
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Reinforcing the CBC and Shrining and Protecting the CBC Radio Canada. They're going to give them
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funding forever. This is the propaganda wing of the Liberal Party. They're going to give them
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funding forever and it will never be taken away. Now we're going to move along to something positive.
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And this just happened within the last 24 hours. This is from the Alberta Prosperity Project.
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Bill 14 has passed. It gets royal assent. At 11 o'clock, Mitch Sylvester resubmitted their question.
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Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be part of Canada to become
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an independent state? Signatures start late January. Game on. So this is good news for
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the independence movement. I'm going to let you hit listen to Keith Wilson here. Keith's
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got a YouTube channel. Go over and support Keith. I'll put a link to his channel below.
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This is what Keith has to say about Alberta independence.
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Very soon, you're going to be asked to sign a petition and will then lead to a referendum,
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I suspect, in October of 2026. And it'd be really important in the time between now and then
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that you reach out to your friends and your neighbours, that you talk to your colleagues,
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the guys on your hockey team, everybody you know, to explain to them the importance of independence,
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the prosperity that that will bring to your community, to you, to your family, to your
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children, to your grandchildren, and how it is a way out of this dystopian nightmare of Ottawa
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controlled Canada under the Liberals. An independent Alberta will not be subject to Bill C-69.
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It will not be subject to a carbon tax and these other things. It will not be net zero.
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We will be able to control immigration to reasonable, sensible levels. We will be able to
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have in Alberta, in independent Alberta, our own criminal justice system. We won't have this
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catch and release and two-tier politically motivated justice system that we've all witnessed.
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We'll have a prosperity that will come from our ability to develop our resources. So it's really
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important that you talk to your neighbours, to your colleagues, to anybody you meet about the
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incredible advantages that will flow to Albertans through independence.
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There are some good things happening and good things are coming down the road for Alberta
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independence. Despite all the things that are negative in Canada, I'll try to live up to that
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agreement in the future to say something positive about Alberta independence each time I talk about
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negative things in the rest of Canada. And there's a lot more negative I didn't even touch on.
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British Columbia? Trainwreck. We'll get into that another day. Thank you very much for watching.
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