I wasn't impressed by Danielle... you were and TOLD ME about it (over 450 times)
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Summary
John responds to your comments on Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's speech to the Alberta Federation of Conservative MPs and asks if she is a traitor to her own province. He also talks about the Alberta government's handling of the Alberta separatist movement and its impact on the rest of the country.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. It's 8.25am. I know it's
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late today. I had computer problems this morning. I apologize. It is the 6th of May. I do have my
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big blue mug of coffee. Thank you for being here today. If you have subscribed, you are part of
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almost 31,000 subscribers here. I'm blown away. If you haven't subscribed, just click on subscribe
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and maybe we'll get to 31,000 by the end of today. Now today I'm going to do something.
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I think I've only done one time before is respond to your comments on one of my videos.
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It's from the video yesterday when I talked about Daniel Smith's speech. And I've got
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about 450 comments on this and nobody agreed with me. Nobody. I'm going to go just through
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a few of the comments because I don't have to read a lot of them because most of you disagreed
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with me. I think I'm an outlier here. And I think a lot of the conservative commentators
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online loved her speech. It was a good speech. It was a good speech. I admire Danielle Smith.
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I do. I think she's the most impressive politician in this country. Municipally, provincially, or
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federally, by far. She has got guts. I was going to say something else, but this is a family
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show. An impressive speech, but it did not impress me so much because it was the same thing I'd
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heard before. It was like she didn't even really need to do this. Other than the separatist movement
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is on the rise, we had a rally in Edmonton which did get some coverage. So maybe that was
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the reason for doing this yesterday. But she made demands again and not even as many demands
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as she'd made prior to the election. And she gave whoever won the election six months to abide by
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the rules and the demands that she set out. So let's take a look at some of your comments. This
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is the video right here. Premier Smith, Alberta doesn't want in. We want out. 463 comments right
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now. Quickly, Laura Jean, 2603. Excellent speech. She has to walk a tightrope. Yes, Laura Jean. Relax,
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John. She knows full well Carney isn't going to do any of this. Scott, 6794. American here. This
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woman is handling the situation in the perfect way. Also doing her job. I think she'll do what
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the people want. I hope she does. I hope so as well. Scott, KP, 8825. Calm down, John. Mrs. Smith
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is biding time so we can troop together and get stronger than ever in this movement. So it is 100%
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successful. Go back to my video a couple of days ago. We still need a leader here and that's what it was
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about a couple of days ago. There should have been somebody walking out yesterday from the
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independence movement with a rebuttal or a response to what she said. Whether they had the media there
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or not, it should be all over social media today. We need a figurehead. We need somebody with a big
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voice that's going to speak on behalf of the independence movement. S. Jambler, she had to give
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Carney a chance to deliver. He won't. The independence movement needs time to organize. A headline rush to a
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referendum would have a good chance to fail. John, she's laying the ground game for the
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referendum. People have to move now, says Brad McLeod, 7176. And fifth in Grace Tarot, I think
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she's doing the right thing. This is true leadership. She knows who she's dealing with but won't do
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anything rash until she sees what she's dealing with. Her job is to steady the ship and she's doing
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a fantastic job of it. Okay, so thanks for the comments. Again, almost all of them were in
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agreement with what I just read there. Not too many people on my side on this one at all. But again,
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I don't think she told us anything new yesterday at all. And she didn't give an ultimatum to Carney
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and when he has to abide by these demands, follow these demands. Now, the other thing that I'm concerned
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about here is this. You know, Canadians say that they're nice, they're sweet, they're more polite
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than Americans. No, that's not true at all. We're vindictive as hell. We're not tolerant of other
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people's views. It's awful. This is a very divided country right now. I want to bring your attention
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to just this right here. I've seen a lot of this online right now. Nathaniel Arfin,
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hey Siri, define traitor. Alberti Premier Daniel Smith, Albertans who want to separate from Canada
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are justifiable, not traitors. There's lots of this online right now. You're being called seditious
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if you're part of the independence movement. You're being called a traitor if you're part of
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the independence movement. This is coming from all over the country, not just in Alberta.
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To the people who don't live in Alberta, and maybe to the people who do live in Alberta,
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who I think are ignorant. This is what I said the other day in my speech. I want to read
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this to you. I'm from Ontario, just to make that clear. I was not a separatist when I first moved
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here, but I soon realized as a former Ontarian, I just didn't understand the grief Alberta had
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endured from the East for decades. While being aware of the National Energy Program, I really
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didn't know the lingering effect it had on Albertans in our province until I became an
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Albertan myself. After the election on Monday, you may be fully aware of how ignorant Easterners
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are of Alberta's plight. I'm not saying they are stupid, but they are ignorant. We are not
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whining. We are not complainers. We are not like the child that takes his ball home when
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he doesn't get his way. We are self-sufficient. We are hardworking. We are generous people,
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and we are fed up. People calling us traitors, seditious. We've had enough.
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Daniel Smith, this is a power play against the federal government right now, not unlike what
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Quebec does. Quebec gets what it wants because it says no. One of our speakers on the weekend
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said that as well. They do. They say no. They stick up for their province, and they actually
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go after the feds all the time, and they get what they want. And as the person on the weekend
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said, good for them. Alberta needs to do this. So well done, Premier Smith. But she is not
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a separatist. She's going to take a lot of grief over this. But it was just what she'd said before
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yesterday, and that's why I didn't think it was a great speech, even though everybody else seemed to
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think it was. I guess I was just expecting more. But we can always disagree, right?
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Thanks very much for watching. I do appreciate it. Short video today. I love your comments. I love you.
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