Jeff Rath - Confident independence is coming to Alberta
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Summary
In this episode, I interview Jeff Rath, a constitutional lawyer and member of the Alberta Prosperity Project Board, who speaks on behalf of the independence movement here in Alberta. He talks about the upcoming UCP AGM, the possibility of an independent vote in 2026, and his thoughts on the current state of affairs in the province.
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I hope you're having a great start to your Friday, only a day away from the weekend.
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And today, I'm excited to have a guest on with me.
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And today, I'm interviewing somebody who's been on the channel before, somebody who speaks
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on behalf of the independence movement here in Alberta.
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As a matter of fact, when I was out on October 25th at the legislature in Edmonton as the
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MC at the big independence rally, you know, I said, you got to hand it to the people
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who are running around the province constantly out almost every night of the week, talking
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to 100, 200, 300 people at a time about Alberta independence.
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And that is certainly the case with my guest today.
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I want to talk to him a little bit about the upcoming UCP annual general meeting, which
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is coming up at the end of November, the possibility of an independence vote in 2026.
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And maybe his thoughts on how Daniel Smith is handling the situation.
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He's a constitutional lawyer, general counsel on the Alberta Prosperity Project board.
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And I haven't actually, I've spoken to you obviously to set up this interview today,
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but I haven't, haven't spoken to you since the independence rally back on the 25th of October.
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And the first thing that really came out of your mouth was that it was the proudest moment
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How'd you feel that day when all those people were standing out there at the Alberta legislature?
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I mean, you know, it just really made it clear to me that we're going to win this referendum
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and that Alberta is going to be free from Canada once and for all.
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Like I can't even, I can't even tell you like how, you know, what a great feeling that
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was to realize that we're going to win this and that Alberta is going to be, you know,
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finally is going to be free to chart its own destiny.
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And, uh, uh, and for all of us here in Alberta to have a future, you know?
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You know, it's been, it's, you know, it's been five really, you know, really, really dark
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I mean, 9% unemployment in Alberta right now, 20% youth unemployment.
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I mean, the Liberals are succeeding in completely destroying this project or this, you know,
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So, you know, the good news for us is that there's a free and independent country around
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the corner just waiting for us where we're not going to have to pay federal income tax
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We're not going to have to, you know, be dictated to, you know, by the whims of some,
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you know, liberal politician in Ottawa getting instructions from the Ministry of State Security in China.
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You know, I, I, I, like, I'm just, I'm so looking forward to finally being free.
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Like after that rally, I mean, how can anybody doubt it?
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I mean, you know, like Conrad Black wrote an article recently, we think, you know, he
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Like one, he said that, you know, over the last four, you know, over the last number of
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years, Alberta's paid $70 billion in transfer payments.
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No, no, the number is $700 billion in transfer payments from Alberta to Canada.
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You know, if we were to apply interest to that, you know, to that number, you know, Canada
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But anyway, leaving, leaving that aside, one of the comments that, you know, that Conrad made
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was that, you know, currently the polling in Alberta, you know, you know, that he's seen
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You know, we want to stay in Canada because we still harbor memories of the 72 series, you
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know, like, you know, all these dear old folks that, you know, all these dear old folks with
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their, you know, their warm, fuzzy memories of what Canada used to be as a country.
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You know, so there's 35% of them, but there's 30% in the middle that are entirely persuadable.
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And we know that we can persuade them because, I mean, we have a real message, you know, like
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I said, no income tax, GST, carbon tax, a future for your kids, you know, deport everybody
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in Alberta that's here on a, you know, international mobility program visa or a, you know, or a temporary
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foreign worker visa, you know, that doesn't, you know, that actually, you know, that doesn't
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actually have a job that cannot be done by an Albertan who's currently on the unemployment
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You know, like, I mean, it might lead to the closure of a hundred Tim Hortons, but quite
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frankly, we, I think we can live without them and we can send Tim back to Toronto where
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You know, we have, there's a bright future for Alberta, right.
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And it starts simply with voting yes to a very simple question.
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You know, do you agree that Alberta shall be a sovereign country and cease to be a province
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I mean, it's a pretty straightforward question.
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Even among the 35% that Conrad said are sort of sitting on the fence right now who aren't
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Some of those could still change because we saw the budget the other day, but, you know,
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I'm, I want to ask you a little bit about, I don't know, I watched the budget the other
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day and I watched, I watched it with the eye of an Albertan and wondering what kind of
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He didn't really throw too much to us at all, other than dropping an emissions cap and saying
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he was going to expand the carbon tax on industry here.
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And I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on that.
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Do you think there's any, any way at this point that Yael Smith can accept it?
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It's just a despicable federal money grab, right?
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So it's like, okay, well, we realized we could be making more money if we just took our boot
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off of your throat a little bit, you know, so we're not going to completely stifle your
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industry and, you know, completely prevent people from investing in your province.
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But, you know, that being said, now that we've taken off this hard cap on emissions,
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So we're going to, you know, we're going to increase the industrial carbon tax and really
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Like under those circumstances, who the hell wants to invest here?
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Like one of the biggest things that Alberta can do for itself, you know, and I don't
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know if I was talking about this at the rally or not, I've done so many speeches.
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I feel like I forgot what I've been saying, but anyway.
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But anyway, you know, one of the largest gas fields in the world is the Motney gas field
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It's recently been re-assayed at four and a half trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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Just let that sink in for a minute, four and a half trillion cubic feet.
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There is enough gas in the Motney gas field to build giant co-generation plants.
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A co-gen plant is a plant that uses natural gas, you know, to heat steam, to turn turbines,
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You know, we pioneered and perfected that technology in Alberta.
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We could build a whole bunch of giant co-gen plants, right, to fire up a giant AI hub in,
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you know, near Grand Prairie, which, you know, would make Alberta, you know,
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literally the leader in the world in artificial intelligence, right?
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And there's enough gas in the Motney gas field to fire up and, you know,
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and supply energy to that AI hub for the next and the entire Alberta power grid
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But we can't attract the capital to this province to do it because every time you turn around,
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the Liberals come up with some bullshit, you know, excuse as to why there's no business case
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for the development of natural gas in the province of Alberta, right?
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You know, and, you know, and I suppose the business case will be developed the minute,
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you know, you know, minute, the minute Carney and Brookfield can figure out how it is that
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they're going to get a monopoly on, you know, natural gas export from Alberta
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and have Brookfield own everything so that every time an MCF gas comes out of the ground,
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it runs through, you know, you know, some sort of, you know, Brookfield owned and controlled
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pipeline, you know, into a Brookfield offshore bank account and then into Carney secret bank,
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offshore bank accounts, you know, in the Caribbean, right?
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But, you know, until they get that set up, you know, they're going to continue to sifle natural
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gas production in Alberta and continue to drive other investment away from Alberta because
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we all know that Brookfield's all about monopolies and, you know, and, you know, being the only
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player in town, you know, which is why Carney, you know, passed Bill C-59 so that Carney is
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the fascist dictator of Canada can determine, you know, what national, you know, what projects
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are in the national interest, sole source contracts to companies that are friendly to
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Brookfield and friendly to Carney, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
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I mean, Carney is Mussolini on steroids, right?
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So, you know, every time he does something, it can only benefit the Alberta independence
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movement because we despise Mark Carney and what he's doing to our country, you know, what
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he's done to Canada and what he's doing to Alberta.
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You know, I did, I did a video the other day and, you know, I'd spoken to a number of
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people in the independence movement and they said, we don't want to hate on Canada, but
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I did a video the other day and said, I'm going here.
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And I said, I don't like, one of the reasons is that we keep voting in these governments
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that are damaging the province in the place I consider my country now, which is Alberta.
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I'm just wondering if, if we leave though, how is it going to make it easier for us to
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get, to get a natural gas pipeline or something, you know, over to, over to British Columbia
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90% of Alberta's trade right now is North and South.
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You know, and as far as it goes, you know, BC, you know, and all of their threats and
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all of their nonsense, you know, we just need, you know, one or two more natural gas pipelines,
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you know, south, you know, to the Gulf coast of Texas or an oil pipeline and a gas pipeline,
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you know, through, you know, through Idaho, you know, into Port Wash or, you know, Port
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Wash or, or the port of Seattle to the Pacific.
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I mean, I saw the other day, David Evie was posing with, you know, the leaders of Haida
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Gwaii and there won't be no Alberta pipelines, blah, blah, blah.
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So, you know, as far as I'm concerned, screw them.
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We'll put all, you know, we'll build five new pipelines south.
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And, you know, we'll develop our own industry and our own natural gas.
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And British Columbia, every truck, every train, everything moving $17 billion worth of your
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goods east to Ontario is going to be stopped at the Alberta border.
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We're very proud of our status as a rat-free province.
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We're going to search every truck for rats coming out of Vancouver.
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You know, we're going to, you know, put a value on all of the goods that are being transported.
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And then you can maybe think about, you know, what you did to yourselves by screwing us on,
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you know, a couple of additional pipelines to the West Coast.
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You know, I mean, you know, like all of this stuff cuts both ways.
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It's like, you know, we have much better relations right now with, you know, the Trump
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administration and with the U.S. government than we have with Ottawa.
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You know, the U.S. government is willing to talk to us.
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Yeah, you made that point at the independence rally as well.
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And I think there's actually international law saying that landlocked countries, Alberta
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would be a new country, have to be given some type of access to ports or to the sea or to
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And we'd negotiate those pipelines to go through the United States to, you know, to the West
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And you can, you know, and, you know, B.C. can basically be stuck out on the left coast
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of Canada trying to find, scrambling to find new markets for its goods and its products
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because Alberta won't be buying any more of them.
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And there'll be a tariff on everything coming out of British Columbia, you know, moving,
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You know, if they want to play the way they want to play.
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Personally, in my heart of hearts, and I think, you know, as a responsible adult, you
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know, my feeling is that sooner or later, rationality is going to have to, you know, reimpose
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Idiots like David Evie, right, who's now posturing it.
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Will there be another Alberta pipeline through British Columbia?
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And, you know, and Legault, you know, like, oh, we don't want no stinky pipelines.
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Blah, blah, blah, like, you know, like, rationality is going to have to reimpose itself at some
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But, you know, when we demonstrate to Canada that, you know, that we can completely replace
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all of our trade with Canada by simply increasing the amount of trade that we have with the United
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States, which would be welcomed by the United States and say, you know, fine, Canada, we
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We have a really nice free trade agreement with the U.S. that says that, you know, 100%
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of all goods and services on both sides of the Alberta U.S. border will now move back
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and forth across that border with zero tariffs, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
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And we will have complete access to U.S. markets.
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The U.S. will have a complete act, you know, we'll have complete access to the Alberta market.
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You know, we'll welcome U.S. financial institutions with open arms, you know, et cetera, et
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I mean, it's going to be it's going to be a wonderful new world in Alberta.
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I've said here on my channel many times, if you don't want to be part of the prosperity
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and help with the prosperity in this country, why should you benefit from Alberta's prosperity?
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Because we put so much into the country and get so little out of it.
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You said that you were very confident that we would get independence here in the province.
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Of course, there's been talk about this Forever Canadian petition that was put out by
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It was mentioned a few times at the independence rally, and there's been talk that this may
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trigger an independence vote as a constitutional lawyer.
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I mean, I think the question might have to be rephrased.
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Like, yeah, well, little Tommy nothing burger, as we now call him.
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And we call him little Tommy nothing burger because Justice Feesby in the referendum case that
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I'm in front of the court in, you know, literally said that, you know, Tommy's referendum petition
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You know, do you think that Alberta shall remain in Canada?
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You know, yeah, it's like on top of it, it's like, it's a policy question.
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It's, you know, it's a question on the order of, do you think Alberta should continue to
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I mean, it's kind of a dumb question when it comes right down to it.
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It doesn't comply with the Clarity Act because the Clarity Act section one sub three.
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So, you know, one bracket three of the Clarity Act says clearly, you know, that, you know,
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a question triggering, you know, independence, you know, under the Clarity Act must state that
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the province wishes to cease to be part of Canada and become an independent state.
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Those are the exact words of section one sub three of the Clarity Act.
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So, you know, Danielle has the potential to take, to go to Mr. Lukasik and his people
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Thanks for showing us that 436,000 Albertans wanted a separatist referendum.
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Because don't forget, I mean, a lot of people, you know, Lukasik, you know, postures around
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Alberta and, you know, and, you know, and pretends that, you know, stands up on his little
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soapbox so he can be as tall as everybody else.
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And then, you know, and tries to claim that his referendum question was the actual referendum
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And then he got 436,000 people to support Alberta staying in Canada.
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Like everything that comes out of Tommy Lukasik's mouth, it's a, you know, it's a lie, right?
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So what he got was 436,000 people, including a lot of Donald Ducks and Mickey Mouses and,
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you know, all kinds of other fake names and whatever else, right?
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Because they weren't checking IDs, you know, got a whole bunch of, you know, a bunch of
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alleged signatures, you know, for the idea that there would be a referendum vote on that
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question, which Daniel Smith rightly says is a, you know, is a separatist question.
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Because if everybody votes no, then where does that leave you?
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Other than you've now had a referendum, you know, on a policy perspective, you know, indicating
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that, you know, that a majority of Albertans want to leave, you know, don't want to remain
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So then we have to have another referendum, you know, with a question that complies with
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They didn't want to have a question that would comply with the Clarity Act and could actually
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trigger, you know, Alberta leaving Canada, right?
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So, you know, they've been lying to people, they've been scamming people, they've been,
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you know, fraudulently obtaining, you know, people's personal information, you know, on
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these petition sheets for purposes other than holding a referendum.
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Because now, Tommy, believe it or not, after all of this, and even though his application
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to Elections Alberta said, you know, you know, that we're going to, we want to have a
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referendum on this question, he's now backpedaling, you know, and saying that, oh, no, no, no,
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And, you know, and I, you know, I think that he should be investigated, frankly, right?
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Either by Elections Alberta or the RCMP, right?
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Because in effect, he gaslit 436,000 people trying to get them, you know, getting them
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to sign a, you know, a petition to have a referendum.
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And now he's saying he doesn't want to have a referendum.
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I wrote, I wrote a letter to Gordon McClure, the chief electoral officer of Alberta, and
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asked him why he even greenlit this in the first place.
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If the outcome of a referendum is the same, regardless of how you vote, why have the
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Why put people through this process if it means absolutely nothing?
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So the question, I guess, again, is would this trigger, maybe, because I want to move
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Is it possible that this, this petition from Lukasik is a major fail?
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I mean, section one, section one of the Alberta Referendum Act leaves the discretion to call
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a referendum on, you know, in, you know, on any constitutional issue with the lieutenant
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That's, you know, effectively Danielle and her cabinet, right?
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So they have the power under the Referendum Act to basically say, thank you, little Tommy,
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for showing us that 436,000 Albertans want to have a separatist referendum.
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But we're not going to use your question, because your question is dumb, because it doesn't
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So we're not going to spend $20 million on a referendum on a non-compliant question.
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So just so there's no controversy, we'll take the wording directly out of the Clarity Act,
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which is, do you agree that Alberta shall cease to be a province of Canada and become
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an independent state and run with that question?
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And I mean, just for, you know, just for giggles the other night, I posted a poll, or the other
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day, I posted a poll on Twitter asking, or on X, asking that question, right?
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And we were running about 80% yes, up until the last hour, when I think a whole bunch of
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the Forever Canadians, you know, figured out that, you know, like 80%, you know, 80% of
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5,500 people, you know, were going to vote yes, in favor of independence.
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So a whole bunch of old people bailed in at the last minute.
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And I can tell they're old people, because I follow the, the analytics on my Twitter, on
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So a whole bunch of old people, which must have been Forever Canadians, you know, basically
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you have 2000 votes in the last hour that are, you know, that shifted the percentage
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But 24 hours, we still won the poll, 53% of the, you know, 66,576 people, you know, favored
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Wanted, you know, vote yes to that question, right?
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And I think that's a really strong indication of where Albertans are at.
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You, you brought up Daniel Smith at the independence rally, while you were speaking, if people watch
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the video, you'll see me walk up and I put something on the podium for you.
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Mitch Sylvester was standing there and he said, John, come here.
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He had a piece of paper and he wrote AGM on there.
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And I walked up and he said, he'll know what this means.
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So I walked up and I just slid that out in front of you.
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Well, the AGM would be the United Conservative Party AGM coming up on the 28th and 29th of
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You went on to tell people to get a membership to the UCP, get a ticket to go to this.
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And what do you want them to do if they do that?
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And they've got until midnight tomorrow night to sign up, by the way.
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I'm sorry, tonight, because the video is happening on Friday.
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Yeah, no, we want them to go to the AGM and vote all of Danielle Smith's pet directors
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Like, she has a little cabal on the provincial board, right?
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That do not, even though 70% of the party membership supports independence, right?
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She's got 50% of the board voting against independence because she's telling them to, right?
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The other day, Danielle Smith actually brought a motion to the provincial board, right?
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To muzzle all talk of independence at the AGM, prohibiting any, you know, any resolutions
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to come to the floor in favor of independence, prohibiting any debate on independence on the
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You know, I've heard from sources on the board that we can't have Mitch Sylvester take over
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And that was basically coming from Danielle Smith, you know, and blah, blah, blah.
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We don't, you know, we don't need to have this at the AGM and this is not unifying for
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So what we're saying is we need to have this discussion.
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Like, in fact, I think Danielle is violating and has violated her fiduciary obligations to
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the citizens of Alberta because, you know, it's looking now like not only is there going
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to be a referendum in favor of independence, but that it's going to succeed, right?
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So why has she not initiated or, you know, or put together or named a minister of independence
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Like, why don't we have a ministry in the government getting ready for Alberta to become
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This was actually proposed by a former political science professor of mine, Leon Craig, who
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I really, really, really admired and enjoyed when I was doing my honors political science
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And he wrote an open letter to Jason Kenney about six years ago asking Kenney this question.
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Like, you guys keep writing these stupid firewall letters and we all know that Alberta is getting
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You know, we're being completely screwed over every time we turn around.
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You know, the only way forward for Alberta is to get the hell out of Canada.
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You know, if you want to send a message to Canada and let them know that you're serious, you
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know, you need to appoint a minister of independence preparedness, right?
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And, you know, our question for Danielle, and we're going to have people lining up at the
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bear pit sessions, the premier accountability, you know, sessions at the AGM.
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And first of all, asking her why she thinks it's appropriate as the premier of the province
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to bully the provincial board into muzzling her base and muzzling her membership, right?
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You know, she's our mummy and she's telling us what we're not allowed to talk about at the
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I mean, it's, you know, it's completely out of line with her role as premier.
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Like she's supposed to be taking her direction from the membership, but instead she's constantly
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playing all of these silly little games to make sure that the wishes of the membership
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for independence are thwarted on an ongoing basis, right?
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Like the whole, you know, the whole what's next scam, you know, scam that she was engaged
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Every single thing she was talking about at the what next panel, pension, policing, taxation,
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you name it, all of it can be fixed with one vote on, we don't need six referenda, you
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We need one vote on independence and the rest of it follows as surely as night follows day.
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So I'm not saying you're ambushing her because certainly you're letting her know up front
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that you're going to be there to talk about these issues.
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Um, I was listening to Corey Morgan on his, on his, um, uh, show on the Western standard
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He said, you know, she should just call an independence vote, get, get it out of the
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Um, because all this pressure is going to be coming down on her from her own party.
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It could, it could destroy the United conservative party.
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Well, she's certainly losing her base and you know, everybody needs to remember what happens
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when, you know, getting impatient, Jeff, I'm getting impatient here.
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Oh no, we all are, John, that's, that's the whole problem.
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And I mean, you know, and at the end of the day, I mean, Jason, Kenny, after, you know,
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like just before we threw him out on his ass, you know, it was like, Oh, well, this is the
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It's like, yeah, okay, Kenny, well, you're fired and you can go join the NDP and have a
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If that's, you know, if that's where you're at, you want to be a whiny little, you know,
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you know, you know, you want to, you know, you want to be a whiny little baby, right?
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You know, but I mean, the reality, the reality of it is that, you know, and again, independence
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Everybody, like every teacher, every doctor, every nurse, every fireman, every, you know,
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every frontline worker will benefit from no longer having to pay federal income tax.
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You know, the day Alberta becomes independent, everybody's take home pay is going to go up
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Teachers are concerned about, you know, the fact that they've got so many students in
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their classrooms that they have to cater to that, you know, that are ESL students, like
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Well, all of the people that are here on international mobility program visas, all of the people that
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are here on a temporary foreign worker visas, unless they absolutely can't be, they can prove
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that they can't be replaced by an Albertan that's currently unemployed.
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You know, give them 1,500 bucks and a plane ticket to Ottawa and tell Ottawa to resettle
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them somewhere because we don't need them here.
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You know, like at 9% unemployment, why are you sending us more foreign workers?
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Send them back to Ottawa where they belong and then let Ottawa deal with it.
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I mean, you know, you think they had a problem with the convoy, you know, wait until plane
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load after plane load after plane load of foreign workers start arriving in, you know,
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You know, due to Ottawa, what they've been doing, you know, doing to Calgary and Edmonton
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Zoom makes a mess of this, but this is the value of freedom I'm holding here in my hand.
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All the statistics and the things you're talking about here are all in here and costed out.
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So if anybody wants to get this, be sure to pick this up at the APP website.
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We'll put a link in the description so people can do that.
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I'm getting short on time here, Jeff, but I wanted to ask you who, what does the APP
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support when it comes up to the general meeting and the board of directors president?
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Well, we're all, we're all supporting, we're supporting Daryl Comet.
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And I, you know, I, and I don't do that lightly because I really like Rob Smith.
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I think Rob Smith is, you know, has been a really, really decent guy and a really decent
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president, but, you know, he proved the other night when he broke the tie, because the board
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split 50-50 on the issue of whether we were going to, they were going to let Danielle muzzle
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us at the AGM this year and not allow any talk of independence, right?
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You know, the board split 50-50 on the base, on the question of whether or not they were
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going to allow Danielle to bully her base into silence at the AGM.
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And then Rob, you know, cast the tying vote in favor of Danielle, because of course, every
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party, you know, like apparently wants to be one of those party presidents that knows
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what side of the bread, you know, the butter's on and, you know, and, you know, and went with
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And of course, we, our feeling is we need a party president that is not a lapdog to Danielle
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We need somebody that has the guts to stand up to her and say, Danielle, like the base aren't
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going to tolerate this, Danielle, you know, even though Rob Anderson is telling you to
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You know, you guys are out of touch with the party base.
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You need to get back in, you want to win an election in 2027.
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You're not going to win it pandering to the, you know, the NDP and the NDP voters, because
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You know, get your head out, you know, get your, you know, get your head out of the sand and
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realize that the only way forward is by embracing your base and embracing what they want, which
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We'll see where the, you know, the chips fall where they may.
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It's going to be an interesting annual general meeting this year.
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You know, we're hoping that we have the votes to basically, you know, get, you know, to recapture
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You know, Danielle has paid organizers to, you know, to oust pro-independence CAs and
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They just, you know, they literally just fired an entire board and president from Sherwood
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And, you know, Danielle wanted, you know, wanted lap dogs, you know, in that constituency
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association, you know, so, you know, you know, the game, you know, as Conan Doyle used to
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say, the game is afoot and we'll see where we go.
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I mean, the tactics that Danielle is employing right now are, you know, are Jason Kenney
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They're sleazy, underhanded, you know, slimy tactics.
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And, you know, we would have all hoped that she was better than that, but apparently not.
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She's trying to avoid discussion about the independence movement at the AGM, but you're not going to
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No, I mean, well, you know, she's trying to, it's not having discussion about the movement
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75, you know, 70 to 75% of her base favor independence, right?
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She's trying to muzzle and stifle any discussion of independence itself at the AGM because heaven
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forbid that we would be allowed to vote on a, you know, on a motion, you know, to, you know,
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to clarify the fact that the United Conservative Party of Alberta, you know, favors independence
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Like she's doing everything she can to prevent that from happening.
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And as far as I'm concerned, the way she's going about it is completely anti-democratic
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and she's thumbing, she's thumbing her nose at the people that elected her.
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You know, Travis Tabes was a Jason Kenney candidate.
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So all the people that voted for him were, you know, were, you know, federalists, right?
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Ray Jan Swanee is about as left-wing as you can get in the UCP without joining the NDP.
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You know, all of her, the people that voted for her certainly, you know, would not have
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Brian Jean ran on the fact that he was the only one that had the guts to go to an APP
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forum, call us all a bunch of idiots to our faces, say that independence was never going
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to happen and it would be over his dead body as leader of the party.
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So none of the people supporting Brian Jean, right, supported independence, right?
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So basically, you know, the only two candidates left, Danielle Smith and Todd Lowen, all of
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the people, or I'd say 90% of the people voting for them were in favor of independence.
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So, I mean, Danielle's really forgotten about the fact that she was elected by a base of the
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And she, every day that goes by when she puts on her silly little red blazer and her
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white shirt and dresses up like the Canadian flag and says, strong Alberta within a United
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Canada, you know, she's making it clear that she wants all of us to have to keep paying
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federal income tax, keep paying carbon tax, keep paying GST, keep having our guns taken
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You know, when she says that, that's what she favors.
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She can pretend all she wants, and it's the same thing on the recent decision from the
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You know, people in this province are scandalized that a majority of the Supreme Court, you know,
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didn't leave the, you know, didn't give Ottawa a year to fix the legislation like they normally
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You know, tell them, look, you need to carve out an exception for 18-year-old kids who
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are having, you know, 17-year-old girls send pictures to them without their consent or
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No, but, you know, this is kind of the reasoning that the Supreme Court was using, you know,
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But instead, you know, a really despicable pedophile who had literally had pictures on
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his, you know, devices of children being, you know, like young children, three, four,
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You know, the Supreme Court said, oh, no, you know, we can't have, you know, we can't have
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And, you know, and so Danielle's going, I'm outraged and this is horrible and blah, blah,
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Well, I'll tell you what, Danielle, if you want to stop this kind of nonsense, you know,
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the quickest way and cleanest way forward is for Alberta to become independent.
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And then we could follow along with what Governor DeSantis is doing in Florida and bring in the
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death penalty in Alberta for, you know, anybody raping a child under the age of 12.
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Well, Jeff, I'm going to have to cut us off there because I'm going to, the video is going
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And it's going to be interesting to see what happens at the end of November or maybe before
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I'm happy to come back whenever you want me or whenever you need me to come on.
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You know, and again, I just want people to focus on how much better off we are going
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Well, tomorrow, I guess this is going to be, by the time this is aired, the deadline will
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have passed to buy a UCP membership to come join us at the AGM and vote.
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So I hope to see all of you with the UCP AGM this year and, you know, and help us hold
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Danielle accountable and encourage her to support a free and independent Alberta.
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