AMAZING Alberta Rally for Independence - marred by ABHORRENT behaviour
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Summary
I was in Edmonton yesterday at the Independence Rally. It was a great day, but there was a dark side to it. I was there to be the emcee and I got to meet a lot of great people, but I also got to witness something disgraceful and disgusting.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is May the 4th. I've got my big blue mug of coffee.
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Hope you're having a great day. It is 3.33 a.m. and I'm feeling great today. I might be a little
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bit hoarse because I was in Edmonton at the Independence Rally yesterday. I was stunned.
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It was the best day Alberta has seen weather-wise in six months. 27 degrees, not a cloud in the sky.
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For people to give up their afternoon on a day like that yesterday was quite stunning.
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Six, seven hundred people showed up. I have no doubt we could get 10,000 people out with more
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social media coverage, more promotion. A huge event is coming, so be prepared for that.
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To the people that were there, thank you for showing up. To the people, dozens of people who
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came up to me and said they watch me each morning here, I am humbled that you would come up and speak
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to me and shake my hand. I enjoyed meeting every one of you. What a great bunch of Albertans I met
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yesterday. Just astounding. Now, I'm going to focus on the positives from yesterday. You have to
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understand, I was part of this event yesterday. I couldn't cover it and I was coming home saying to
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my wife yesterday, I couldn't get the interviews I wanted because I just didn't have time and it was
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a long day. Up at 2 a.m., leaving Calgary around 7, 7.30, stopping halfway to Edmonton to eat some
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breakfast, four hours there at the event back at 7 o'clock. I was absolutely done. I just didn't
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have time to, but I do have some video for you today. But, there's also something about this event
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that was very dark. Now, if you were there, you may have heard this. If you weren't, I'm going to tell
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you about it. I have a good source that this happened. I will be getting access to audio and
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video from this event later on today and I'm going to go through it to do another video on the event
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itself and I'm going to scour the audio because if what I was told is true and I believe 100% it is
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true, something disgraceful and disgusting happened yesterday and it should never, ever happen anywhere
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in this country and it should never, ever happen on the grounds of the Alberta legislature again. So, I'm
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going to tell you about that in just a moment. So, I was the emcee of this event yesterday
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and I'd like to thank James Westgate Snell from the Western Standard. They wrote up a story on this,
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CTV did, CBC as well. I'm going to show you a little bit about that in just a moment. But,
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he got a little footage of me when I opened up the event yesterday and I had this to say.
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After the election on Monday, you may be fully aware of how ignorant Easterners are in Alberta's
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plight. I'm not saying you're stupid, but they are ignorant. We are not lying. We are not complainers.
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We are not like the child that takes the ball when he doesn't get his way.
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We are self-sufficient. We are hard-working. We are generous people and we are fed up.
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I was honored to be part of that event, to be the emcee yesterday. My wife told me to take the
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big blue mug. I did. It was the star of the show yesterday. People have pictures of me with the
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big blue mug. But, I was able to be there and we had some great people speaking. I want to bring
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them up. Michael Wagner, David Laskowski, Jeevan Mangat, Grant Abraham, Bill Jones, Kerry Lambert.
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I hope to have some footage of them tomorrow. But, before saying what you just saw me say,
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if that makes any sense, I mentioned that I was from Ontario and I didn't understand Alberta
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before I moved here. Corey Morgan, again from the Western Standard, thanks so much.
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Corey saying, remember the rules of Canada. Quebec asserts itself and is recognized as standing up for
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provincial sovereignty while the federal government falls over itself for them. Western Canadians assert
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themselves. They're considered selfish assholes. And, Corey actually tweeting this out as well.
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I've downloaded the Sovereignty's Handbook on audiobook last year and listened to it. It's
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getting close to number one on Amazon. If you're part of the independence movement, I would suggest
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you buy Corey's book. It is excellent. Corey, we need you as a voice here as part of the independence
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movement. I know you're a very strong voice here in Alberta. Now, looking at some of the coverage of
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this, Albertans rally for separation, saying things won't change under Confederation.
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Quoting Leo, who says, Canadians are worried about losing auto manufacturing jobs due to U.S.
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President Donald Trump's tariffs, but they don't seem concerned about protecting jobs in Alberta's
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oil and gas sector. That is absolutely true. A few dozen counter-protesters attempted to drown out
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the rally, many holding signs saying that separation would violate treaties with First Nations. More on that
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in just a moment. Part of the darkness I talked about at the beginning of this video.
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Edmonton rally for Alberta independence met with opposition from Indigenous communities.
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Most of these stories are very good and very balanced, okay? And then this, again, from the
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Western Standard, and this is from James Snell. Indigenous counter-protesters confront Alberta
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sovereignists at legislature rally. And this is what he had to say. Approximately 700
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sovereignists were met by about 50 Indigenous counter-protesters and their allies.
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Speeches advocating for independence were delivered from the legislature's steps, while Indigenous
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opponents used a sound system and megaphone to broadcast counter-narratives. At one point,
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an Indigenous elder used a megaphone to amplify sounds she described as representing
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emphasizing opposition to sovereignty and colonialism.
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So what you just heard there was this group of Indigenous protesters who showed up and spent almost
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two hours yelling and screaming into a microphone to try to disrupt what the independence rally was
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doing at the Alberta legislature yesterday. And I'm getting to the darkness in just a moment,
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okay? This is bad. Before the event, I was talking to a security person. I asked them,
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who's able to come here and speak? Well, the independence rally was planned yesterday between
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one and three, and they booked the time there. Prior to us getting to the actual steps of the legislature,
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another group was there. At one o'clock, they left. Apparently, this Indigenous group shows up
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every weekend and has a grievance about something. Now, prior to me opening up my speech yesterday,
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I addressed this issue, and I looked at them, and I said to our friends who have shown up here today,
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I need you to understand that I want us all to work together to make things better,
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and I think we have more in common than you might think. In my speech, I had written something in,
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but I took it out because I addressed the issue at the beginning, and this is what I wrote.
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Prevalent in the headlines over the last couple of days, First Nation groups are taking notice of
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this movement as well. This isn't a selfish movement. We want what is best for everyone in Alberta.
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Canada has let us all down. There is strength in our friendship as Albertans. There is strength in
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us working together, and I believe that 100%. This is from the City News story. Taz, the organizer of
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the counter-protest, says she is very happy with the results of the federal election. She says she will
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continue to voice her support for Alberta, remaining part of Canada. Quote, we worked hard to get Mark
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Carney in. It was the Indigenous vote that was the deciding vote. Unquote, said Taz. That's not true
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at all. Indigenous people don't vote hardly at all. I don't understand their point. They have been abused
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by the Canadian government like Alberta has for years. Things will likely be better for you in
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Alberta. I truly believe that, Taz. I think you're wrong. Now let's look at the real darkness, and it's
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getting darker by the moment. This is by somebody who goes anonymous on X. There's a planned protest
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tomorrow in the cities of Calgary and Edmonton against the white trash separatists. This is
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Indigenous land. It doesn't belong to the effing white separatists. I will never, ever say that you
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own the land. To those people who are white, and you say that the natives of this country own all the
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land, please be the first person to hand over your property and your house. Otherwise, it's just
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virtue signaling. Same person, white separatists, ran with their tails between their legs like an hour
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ago when warriors from the various First Nations on the prairie showed up at Edmonton rally. This is the
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group of people you're seeing on the screen here. So, this is when it gets really disturbing. So, I'm on
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stage yesterday, and I'm listening to each of the speakers. My wife was sitting on the stage with Jeevan
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Mangat's wife, Nina. They were in behind, and as I was listening to the speakers, I could hear the
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ruckus going on from the native groups behind. Now, they never left. They never leave. There isn't a
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police officer, an RCMP officer in this country that would be caught dead trying to remove a bunch of
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First Nations people off any property whatsoever. It would become a national story. So, they get the First
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Nations past, basically. So, I'm listening to the speakers, hearing this nattering going on, not paying
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much attention, and the people that were there ignored them for the most part. They were just
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making a nuisance of themselves and not making any point whatsoever. As I'm driving out of Edmonton,
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my wife said, did you hear what they were saying? And I said, no, I wasn't listening to them paying
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attention. I was focusing on what was said at the rally, and it was great. She says, well, I was
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listening, and they had sort of like an open mic point, which I remember happening because I kept
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looking over and seeing a different person talking and yelling into this microphone. She said, people
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came up and were saying anti-Semitic things, talking about Jews. The next person would come up, and when one
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of the speakers, who happens to have darker skin, who I consider a friend of mine, Jeevan Mangat was
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on stage, the interim leader of the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta, a very nice man,
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a very, very strong Alberta patriot. I admire him greatly. When he was making a speech, somebody was
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yelling about Asians and how they have to go back to their country. This was from the natives who were
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there yesterday. Now, no one, regardless of who you are, should be able to say such things here
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in this country. Nobody should be saying this on the grounds of the Alberta legislature. These people
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should never be allowed to come back there again. It disgusts me. It disgusts me. Now, as I said, there is
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video footage of this, and there is audio footage of this, and at times you could hear these people
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screaming. I will be watching every minute of this video footage and hearing the audio later today.
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And I am going to scour the audio until I can find out what my wife told me in the car. I 100%
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believe that this happened. My wife would not lie to me, and I am disgusted that this happened yesterday.
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If you were there and heard this, let me know. Leave it in the comments. If you have video footage, let me know
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where I can find your footage of these people doing this. But this should never, ever happen again.
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And if I can find the footage and get the audio, I will try to make a national story out of this because
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I, it's disgraceful. It was a wonderful day yesterday. I would like to thank everybody that
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showed up there. I would like to thank everybody that came up to speak with me yesterday. I had a
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wonderful time. It was a long day, but it was well worth it. I want to end it there. Thank you so much
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for watching. Thanks so much for being here. If you liked the video, please give me a thumbs up,
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subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications, and I will see you in the next one.
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Hi, Sheila. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Can you tell me why you're here today? What brought you down?
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I'm here to stand up for Alberta and hopefully bring forward a new era that we can have live
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prosperous and free without the massive government overreach that we experience and bad policies that
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don't work. I mean, our, where there's a very clear divide between the East and the West and
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it has to start with one province. And I think Alberta is the place where we can make this happen
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and great freedom for actually everyone across Canada eventually.