Danielle Smith... Just Sittin' On The Fence... Or Is She The Fence？
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A vote on independence has not been scheduled for October 19th, 2019. What does this mean for the independence movement in Alberta? Is this a stalling tactic by the premier, Danielle Smith, to get us a vote?
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Thursday, May 21st, it is about quarter past seven with the big blue mug of coffee on my back deck right now, enjoying my evening.
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I did just watch Premier Danielle Smith make an announcement to Alberta, to Canada and the world, and I thought perhaps we might get a vote on independence on October 19th this year, but we did not get that.
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I thought it would have been delicious if Thomas Lukasik's petition actually triggered a vote on independence in the fall.
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What we get to do is vote to perhaps have a vote on independence.
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You get to vote to stay in Canada or have an independence vote.
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So initially what I thought was Danielle Smith isn't sitting on the fence.
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And all I can see this is, is kind of a stalling tactic.
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If we vote in this so-called referendum question, October 19th,
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to actually have a referendum on independence, when would that happen?
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Well, do you think it's going to happen in 2027?
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Do you think Daniel Smith will come out of this referendum on October 19th
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and schedule another one quickly in 2027. Not a chance. First off, it costs a lot of money and
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there is a provincial election coming up in 2027. It would be political suicide for her to have a
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vote on independence in this province in 2027. So when would we eventually have this vote on
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independence? It could be years. And this isn't going to satisfy the people who want to vote now.
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But what else is happening? Well, total meltdown. Before we got this announcement, people were
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saying, if Danielle Smith doesn't get us a vote, we're going to bring her down. You know, sign up
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for the UCP, you'll have a vote. When a leadership review comes up, we can get rid of Danielle Smith.
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But she didn't bite on that. She's staring that right in the face right now. But what's the
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alternative to danielle smith and the ucp right now nahed nenshi and the ndp and we'll never get
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a vote on independence with those guys running this province i'm going to be talking with keith
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wilson on the channel and i'll have that video up approximately around 8 30 quarter to 9 tonight
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i've got some interesting questions for him but what do you think you're obviously not pleased
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with this i'm not pleased with it but every time something like this gets in our way we seem to
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rally and we still seem to rise to the top with this i think somehow we're going to turn these
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lemons into lemonade when it comes to the independence movement i'm going to ask keith
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about that is there i don't know a silver lining to this cloud that's the question i want to ask
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But I think she took the easy way out here by giving us a vote to have a vote on independence.
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I'm hoping before 9 o'clock at the very latest.