Danielle Smith had a big day yesterday in Alberta and in Canada and I want to talk about it. She says she's got the demands of Mark Carney and the Liberals, and she's lowered the threshold for a referendum. I also talk about who might be a good leader of the independence movement.
00:00:00.400Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is May the 13th, 6.34 a.m. I've got my big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:08.020Hope you're having a great day today. And just before I get into my video, I need to explain something.
00:00:14.040I was up very early this morning. I woke up at 2 o'clock and I wanted to shoot this video and get it out for, well, an hour and a half ago.
00:00:21.560Maybe two hours ago. But unfortunately, I've had some real issues with my computer. I need a new computer.
00:00:27.640It's just not working with my editing program anymore. And it has been so frustrating this morning.
00:00:32.940So you're going to notice a couple of these segments needed to be reshot today, including this one.
00:00:38.000You can see the window back here. You can see the light. It's light outside. It's 6.35 a.m. now.
00:00:43.220The first segments I shot, it was pitch black. So you're going to see that window change a couple of times through this video.
00:00:48.220So huge day yesterday. Wow. The shit is hitting the fan here in Alberta and in Canada.
00:00:57.080Right now. Danielle Smith. I want to talk about her today. Lots of stuff to talk about.
00:01:01.200And what she did yesterday. Another shot across the bow of Mark Carney and the Liberal Party. Unbelievable.
00:01:08.040I want to talk about Jeff Rath. Got my hat. You know, Jeff with the hat. He walked out yesterday.
00:01:12.960They announced a question for the referendum with the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:01:18.960Great question. But I've got real concerns with the optics of what happened yesterday.
00:01:23.780I also want to talk about how Alberta is being disrespected and give you an idea of who might be a good leader of the independence movement.
00:01:32.340Because that's a big part of my problem with what's going on right now.
00:01:36.980The Feds are working for you, according to the Prime Minister.
00:01:41.580But somebody else in the government says they're not working for you.
00:01:44.740Getting mixed messages from them and how they're working with Alberta, which they're not at all.
00:01:49.260And I want to talk about a statesman here. Great interview yesterday with a great Western statesman on Juneau News.
00:01:56.560So I'm going to get a clip of that for you today as well.
00:01:58.700But Danielle Smith. Unbelievable day yesterday.
00:02:05.120She's batting a thousand when it comes to going head-to-head with the Liberal Party.
00:02:09.800And Mark Carney right now. This is what she had to say.
00:02:12.520That's why today we're announcing that effective immediately, Alberta is freezing the industrial carbon tax under Alberta's Technology and Innovation Emissions Reduction System, or TIR, at $95 per tonne of emissions.
00:02:27.960The next thing was she lowered the threshold to have a referendum here in Alberta.
00:02:31.580The signature collection time for citizens' initiatives will be extended from 90 days to 120 days.
00:02:38.860We are also improving the process by setting the threshold to be 10% of the number of eligible voters who participated in the last general election.
00:02:48.140And she's also provided a long list to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party of things that Alberta demands so that we get a fair shake here in the country.
00:02:58.560By repealing the No New Pipelines Law, C-69, the Oil Tanker Ban, the Net Zero Electricity Regulations, the Oil and Gas Emissions Cap, the Net Zero Vehicle Mandate, and any federal law or regulation that purports to regulate industrial carbon emissions, plastics, or the commercial free speech of energy companies.
00:03:19.180So the Premier just basically saying we're not raising the industrial carbon tax anymore.
00:03:23.960It's something that Carney wants to do on a federal level.
00:03:59.960Jeff yesterday with the Alberta Prosperity Project coming up with a question to be on the referendum.
00:04:07.080Now, I think it's a great question, but I have some severe concerns at the optics of this, what it looks like, who is making these announcements, and I have some ideas of who should be making these announcements instead of Jeff Rath, who I don't think speaks for the whole independence movement.
00:04:25.980But it was a great reveal yesterday, so here is Jeff Rath with the question for the referendum.
00:04:32.420I am very proud to announce that we have an official referendum question for the referendum petition campaign that we would like to introduce today.
00:04:42.420So, gentlemen, if you could excuse me for a minute, and I'll try to do this without pulling down the signboard.
00:04:50.920That is the question that will be on the ballot for the Alberta referendum.
00:04:56.780It states quite simply, do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada, yes or no?
00:05:07.980I think it's a great question. It's the question that I would have written in order to fulfill the Supreme Court's rules under the Clarity Act.
00:05:16.100Clear question. I don't think you can argue it's not a really clear question.
00:05:20.200And then we have to get the clear majority in order for us to separate.
00:05:23.800I have a problem with the way this looked yesterday.
00:05:27.760And no disrespect to Jeff Rath. True Albertan here. He's got the hat.
00:05:32.440He's got the blue jeans. Probably wearing cowboy boots. I couldn't tell.
00:05:35.720But it wasn't a very good look yesterday.
00:05:38.940I think we need somebody a little more professional.
00:05:40.900I don't think Jeff Rath is the head of the independence movement here.
00:05:44.300Although it seems like he's taking that spot.
00:05:47.860And the other thing that really bothered me in this, and I think if Jeff watched that video,
00:05:51.900he walked up and removed the Alberta flag from the question and threw it on the floor.