Politicians are IRRELEVANT - PERSUADE this group and oil and gas will flow
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about my recent interview with the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project, Mitch Sylvester, and what he said about the independence movement in Alberta. I also talk about the Heisla Nation's new joint venture with natural gas companies, and how it could be a stumbling block to independence.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Hope you're having a great day today. It is Sunday, June the 15th.
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I have my big blue mug of coffee as usual and I've got a different setup here in my home.
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Trying to make things look a little bit better here, although I have a question for you right off the top.
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Does that picture over there, does it distract you?
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Somebody commented on it on the video yesterday that I'm a King Crimson fan and that's the album cover for In the Court of the Crimson King.
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It's actually the lyrics to 21st Century Schizoid Man. For those people in the know, it makes up the photo.
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I might take it down if it's distracting to you. It's been up there all through the videos I've done on this channel.
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Anyhow, thank you very much for being here today.
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And yesterday, I really, really got some great feedback on my video I did with Mitch Sylvester, the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project.
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And I'm not patting myself on the back here, but I think it was one of the best videos done
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that answered a lot of questions regarding the independence movement here in Alberta.
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I'm going to try to set up interviews with more people in the future regarding the independence movement
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because that's what I used to do. I used to interview people.
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And I had, you know, 15, 20 minutes to talk to him yesterday, but I had a lot of questions I didn't get to.
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So hopefully we can do that in the future. But he said something in that interview that I thought was very important.
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And it was regarding indigenous people. Let me just play back a little bit of the interview from yesterday.
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And I want to come back and talk about this particular thing when it comes to the independence movement.
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Not only that, but when it comes to the oil and gas industry and resources right across the country.
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So indigenous have rights to the land because of treaties.
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Well, the treaties, the treaties gives them lots of rights, but I mean, the interpretation of the rights for the land,
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but we're not leaving indigenous people behind. I can't, I'm not in a position to talk about what their land rights are.
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I just know that all crown land in Alberta belongs to the government of Alberta.
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And that's, that's, that's for sure, because I just went through a big undrip fight with, you know,
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basically the federal government on that and won that based on treaties that were signed by all parties concerned,
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aboriginal Métis, uh, farmers, trappers, all those people on caribou preservation, just north of Bonneville.
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It was made very clear that crown land in Alberta belongs to the government of Alberta.
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The question is, is that their treaty rights are rights that were signed by them.
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As a matter of fact, we want to try and make aboriginal people way richer by giving them,
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uh, actually tripling their income and giving them the opportunity to come out of poverty
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We're not leaving those people behind, but I really believe that the people that have,
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well, I don't believe, I know that we've showed our business plan to, uh, aboriginal chiefs.
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I watched my interview with Mitch back yesterday, and I focused in on what he said right there,
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particularly the part about making people rich, making aboriginal groups rich.
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And I wrote down the words less adversarial and more persuasive with aboriginals.
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You know, there is a very small minority of people who make the biggest noise who are against
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And I think these people are funded by environmental groups, but those people have a loud voice,
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But I think there are lots of aboriginal groups out there that want to be rich and they don't
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Here's a story from the national post, how the Heisla nation became a model for indigenous led
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The Heisla nation has partnered with natural gas companies and now owns a majority stake
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This could be a stumbling block against the independence movement in Alberta.
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And certainly these groups, this minority of people that want to keep everything in the ground,
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I'm talking aboriginal groups here, could be a stumbling block because Mark Carney gives them
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His outs for oil and gas in this country, his outs for natural resources in this country.
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He uses the word consensus at times, but he just wraps it up in nothing gets done if everybody
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And that's just something that will never happen.
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But we will only do that in the case where we have the support of First Nations.
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We have the support of all the provinces, obviously including Quebec in the example that I gave,
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Any major energy project, virtually any major energy project that comes from this great province
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is going to pass the boundaries of other provinces, is going to be built on first aboriginal lands.
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They will need the consent and the support of other provinces, of the pop-up doctone aboriginal people.
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Mark Carney gets everything he wants, which is nothing, I mean building nothing,
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From APTN News, Anishinaabek Nation chief says he briefed OPP on protests against fast-track bills.
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Shutting down the economy of Ontario is not off the table, Scott McLeod.
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Ontario wants to develop what's known as the Ring of Fire, which is an amazing amount of resources
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in northern Ontario that would make everybody rich, things that the world needs.
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Today, Scott McLeod says he was invited by an Indigenous relations coordinator to brief officers
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at the OPP's Orillia headquarters on why First Nations opposed the legislation
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and why they see the bills as a violation of treaties with the Crown.
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McLeod saying that shutting down the economy of Ontario is not off the table
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and that if police want to avoid another Dudley George, they need to understand First Nations' position.
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I believe Mike Harris was the premier at the time.
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Dudley George killed as supporters occupied a provincial park that the government appropriated
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So, you know, trying to invoke this death of this man, you know, do as we say because we
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But, you know, if we're more persuasive with Aboriginal groups and less adversarial, we won't
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have to worry about the people who are really getting in the way.
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Prince Rupert Mayor sides with E.B. over Smith on Northern Gateway Pipeline reboot.
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People like Mayor Herb Pond from Prince Rupert don't want a pipeline.
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People like David E.B., the premier of the province, don't want a pipeline.
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People like Mark Carney, the current prime minister of the country, don't want a pipeline.
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But if we were to convince the Aboriginals it was in their best interest and work with
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them and try to be less adversarial and more persuasive, do you think that E.B., Pond, and
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Stop focusing on the politicians and start focusing on people who we can persuade.
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Well, I'd like to get somebody on the air, maybe a First Nations chief.
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They're being very prosperous working when it comes to LNG, making a lot of money off of it.
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And they're owning a large part of pipelines across the country.
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I want to get somebody on the air to talk about this issue from a First Nations perspective
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and how we can bring them into the independence movement, but also do it from the standpoint
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And I think this is probably the best way to go.
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Other than Daniel Smith, who is continuing to work with these people and wants to cut some
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deals to make Aboriginals rich and to make us rich as well.
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