Mic Cut Drama! Jeff Rath Shut Down as Smith Faces Boos (re-upload)
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Summary
The United Conservative Party Annual General Meeting is happening this weekend, and there are some things happening that will have a big impact on the province of Alberta. First, there was a moment at the AGM where Jeff Rath's mic was turned off. Second, there's a new MOU between Premier Danielle Smith and the Liberal Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
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I can't wait to ask Danielle how many people she thinks in the room support Alberta Independence
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and then ask the room to raise their hands if they support Alberta Independence.
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I hope you've got something to keep you warm this morning.
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Mine is 16 degrees right now in Calgary, so it's a cold one.
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So, the United Conservative Party Annual General Meeting is happening this weekend.
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You saw the clip off the top from my program the other day with Jeff Rath.
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And, you know, there's going to be some big things happening at the Annual General Meeting this weekend,
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But what happened yesterday with Jeff Rath taking the microphone will have reverberations through this party,
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I got an email in last night from a friend who works with the Alberta Prosperity Project,
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And I'm going to play that for you in just a moment.
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But this is what happened when Jeff Rath stood up with the microphone amongst 3,000 or 4,000 people in Edmonton
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addressing the Premier of the province of Alberta.
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and Mark Carney went out and gleefully announced a 600% increase
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How many of all of us think we're a free and independent Alberta?
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How many of all of us favor a free and independent Alberta?
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to that question with all those people standing up and applauding what Jeff said. Now, Jeff has
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a huge voice. He's not the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project, but he knows what he wants.
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He wants Alberta independence, and he knows why he wants it, and he's not afraid to say it. I'm
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going to play something for you in just a moment that was also on my channel the other day that
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got some mention in the Western Standard, and he's pissing off a lot of people within the United
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Conservative Party. And as Jeff has said here before, as Mitch Sylvester has said here, I think
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Dennis Modery has said here as well. I don't want to put words in their mouth, but I think all three
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of the men from the Alberta Prosperity Project I've had on this channel have said it. A large
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percentage of people in the UCP want Alberta independence. They think it's better for us to
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go it alone. Now, as you've noticed, I put on my Alberta Republic hat. So after Jeff asks about this
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carbon tax hike in the province of Alberta due to this memorandum of understanding
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that Danielle Smith has signed with Mark Carney, the Liberal Prime Minister, he gets that standing
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ovation. Now, I'm going to play you what Danielle Smith says right after that. But prior to her
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answering, they shut Jeff Rath's mic off. I'm going to show you that in just a moment as well.
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But I have to correct, I have to correct what Jeff said. We have always had an industrial
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carbon price going back to 2007. We levy it as a provincial government. We collect it as
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a provincial government. This is not money that goes to the federal government. What he
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was talking about was that in Quebec, Quebec's carbon price trades for under $30. Our price
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is $95. There's a differential. We have agreed to talk about having an increase in that price that
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would go up to $130 over a longer period of time. So that was Danielle Smith's answer to Jeff's
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question regarding carbon pricing. Now, it's pretty early in the morning. I'm sure more video is going
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to pop up over the next several hours and we'll get more on what you're about to see next. Because
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just prior to Danielle Smith answering, Jeff had something else to say, but his mic was silenced.
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They are booing Danielle Smith, a large percentage of those people booing Danielle Smith at what is
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supposed to be a celebration of the United Conservative Party at their annual general
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meeting. And she's a popular premier. Conservatives in this province like Daniel Smith. I like Daniel
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Smith. But this deal she signed with Mark Carney and the Liberal Party is a bad deal for Alberta, just
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like Jeff Rass said there. And he said on my channel the other day before it was even released. I was
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told that the devil is in the details. No, we're making a deal with the devil here. And that's what the
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liberals are. They may throw us a bone every once in a while, but eventually they're going to screw us
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over again. And that's normally what happens. People like myself, we want to move on. There's
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going to be a reckoning here at this event. Voting goes on today. This is likely to be the next president
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of the United Conservative Party. This is a guy who's really into independence. And that's who people
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who are there, who signed up with the Alberta Prosperity Project, are going to be voting for today.
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Now, I'd like to thank the Western Standard, Jeremy Borg here. He provided the clips that
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you're seeing here. Jeremy Borg works with the Western Standard. I'd like to thank Rebel News as
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well for getting that video. There's likely to be more video later today. It's pretty early in the
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morning right now. I've been digging around, haven't been able to find it. But more about what happens
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here, or at least happened yesterday. Here's an article in the Western Standard, Raising the Roof,
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Independence Leader Rath gets standing ovation at the UCPAGM as he challenges Smith.
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Jeff Rath of the Alberta Prosperity Project tore the roof off the house at the UCPAGM in Edmonton
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on Friday night. There's Jeremy. Thanks again, Jeremy. Go and subscribe to the Western Standard.
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Paid subscription. Go do it right now, okay? The statement was met with thunderous applause
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and a standing ovation from the vast majority of the roughly 4,000 attendees. Smith responded by saying
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she supported an independent Alberta within the United Canada, and that's what people booed at,
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which was overwhelmingly met with boos from the crowd, right? Rath told the Western Standard after
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the exchange that he thought Smith needed to hear the reception that his remarks received but didn't
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think it would change her stance going on the independence debate going forward. Mitch Sylvester,
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CEO of the APP, said that Rath's statement got 75% of the room. And that's the number we've been
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hearing of the people within the United Conservative Party that are pro-independence. I've been saying it
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on the news for the last two weeks now. Independence is alive and well. This is not going away.
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Here's an article from the other day. This is the one that happened, and they actually mentioned my
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channel here. Advocates say Alberta independence sentiment remains strong despite Kearney-Smith
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energy agreement. If you go down here, it says, speaking to John Bolton on his podcast on Thursday,
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Rath criticized the federal government for leaving the project contingent on approvals
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from British Columbia and BC First Nations. This is prior to the signing of that memorandum of
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understanding. We don't have a hard promise of a pipeline. It's subject to the wishes of BC and BC
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First Nations, Rath said. Rath also questioned the broader political strategy, claiming that Alberta's
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commitments to decarbonization and net zero initiatives are being imposed without reciprocal
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federal guarantees. And I heard that a number of people within the United Conservative Party were
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really pissed with Rath when he said the following, this has made Danielle look like a putz.
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So yeah, so he basically refers to it as a meaningless, his exact words were meaningless
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public relations ploy, right? And then, you know, and then Kearney himself basically says,
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oh, well, you know, the MOU creates necessary conditions, but not sufficient conditions,
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you know, blah, blah, blah, because the government of British Columbia and the BC First Nations
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still have to agree. So he's basically saying they have a veto, right? So that whole thing with Kearney,
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it almost reminded me of the old Mackenzie King story when they tried to pin him down on conscription.
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And he said, you know, conscription of necessary, but not necessarily conscription, right? It was just more
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liberal gobbledygook and doublespeak and whatever, but it's made Danielle look like a putz. You know,
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now she has to put on a nice face tomorrow and she's probably going to, we'll see if she's going
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to wear a little, you know, Canada flag costume, little red blazer and a white shirt, right? Dress up
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like a Canada flag to address this, to announce this MOU, right? And everybody's already said that
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it's a joke. And then keep in mind, so vague promises from the liberals that will never come true,
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but hard promises from Alberta to spend billions on Pathways Alliance, carbon sucking machines,
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decarbonizing Alberta oil, screwing our oil patch left, right, and center with this stupid net zero
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bullshit. Sorry, you know, I'm going to speak oil patch now, right? Net zero bullshit that Danielle's
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gobbling up with a fork and spoon because little her boyfriend, Mark, is serving it to her on a plate
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and we don't have a hard promise of a pipeline. The United Conservative Party did not want this issue
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discussed at their annual general meeting this weekend. They tried to quash it, but the cat's out of
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the bag and Jeff Rath opened the bag and it was filled with cats. This is what everybody's talking
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about. Article, Edmonton Sun, free and independent Alberta question draws loud applause at UCP's annual
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general meeting. Talking about Jeff with the Alberta Prosperity Project. Smith, this is the next story here.
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Smith defends federal MOU at UCP AGM calls carbon pricing agreement a win for Alberta. That's what
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she said after Jeff Rath brought up the question. Even the National Post has got an article on this.
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They're concerned, and I think I am as well, about a fracturing of the party allowing the NDP under
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Nahed Nenshi, who is the leader of the NDP here in Alberta, to get right down the middle
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and win the next election. But the best way to maybe end all of this, I guess you could call it
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controversy, is to have a vote. Put it behind us one way or the other, Madam Premier.
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We have a referendum, we vote to leave, and you don't have to worry about it anymore.
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If we vote not to leave, you don't have to worry about it anymore. And two Octobers from now,
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you can go into an election and say, it's all in the past, and it won't be used as ammunition
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against you. I think that's a possibility. But wow, what a great start to the AGM. Thanks, Jeff.
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Thanks for being on the channel. Thanks for making the news. It certainly keeps things interesting
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here in Alberta. And there's never a dry moment in Alberta when it comes to politics.
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Thanks for watching. I do appreciate it. If you like the video, give it a thumbs up,
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