The BEST of the ALBERTA Prosperity Project - Alberta INDEPENDENCE NOW
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In this episode, I speak with three of the main voices in the Alberta Prosperity Project, Mitch Sylvester, Jeff Rath, and Dr. Dennis Modry. They talk about their thoughts on Alberta's independence from Canada.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to my channel. I hope you're having a wonderful day today.
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If you've been to my channel before, you know that it's no secret that I would like to see
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Alberta become a separate country. I've had an opportunity to talk to three gentlemen on my
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channel over the last several months from the Alberta Prosperity Project, three of the men
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who are, I think, the main voices when it comes to events around the province of Alberta. I'm
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talking about Mitch Sylvester, Jeff Rath, and Dr. Dennis Modry. And here on my channel, between
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the three of them, I've spoken to them for over 90 minutes. I thought it would be kind of fun and
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very informational for people who haven't heard these men speak if I cut this down and I did a
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best of the Alberta Prosperity Project. So basically, you're going to hear from all three men here in
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about 30 minutes. I think the original videos are well worth watching in their entirety, but right
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now, Mitch Sylvester, Jeff Rath, and Dr. Dennis Modry from the Alberta Prosperity Project. I hope
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you enjoy. I'm feeling pretty optimistic right now. I really am. I spoke with Corey Morgan a couple
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of weeks ago and I asked him whether he thought maybe there might be a lull in this momentum that's
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happened, I think, when it comes to the independence vote through the summertime. But I see all the things
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that you're doing, that the Alberta Prosperity Project is doing, the people who are showing up.
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It seems like day after day, you've got different meetings set up. I'm looking forward, IRSVP to the
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24th here in Calgary. So hope to see you. Maybe you'll be there and meet you.
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Yeah. Are you optimistic? How are you feeling about it right now?
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Well, I am very optimistic. Actually, I'm surprised by the continuing response we're getting. And the
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other thing that I'm very surprised about that makes me feel optimism as well is that the fact that
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50 to 60% of the people in the room have never been to a political meeting before.
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And the other thing I'm seeing is young moms with babies and young people, you know, traditionally
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our political meetings were people over 45, even over 55. And now we're seeing a lot of 20 to 40
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year olds attending these meetings and very much in support. So that all by itself makes me optimistic
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about this. The message is very strong. I mean, the message is very good. And we don't believe for one
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second and it's even partisan. We think that once people understand the numbers that, you
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know, both sides of the aisle are going to be very happy with the results of a yes vote
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You know, I've watched a few videos of you. You describe Alberta as the richest real estate
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in the world. Financially, what would independence mean to a typical Albertan, an average Albertan
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Well, it's funny that you should mention that. We're just publishing a business plan and we're
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going to probably have a press conference next week about it. And it's very clear. What does
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it mean to the average Albertan? It will probably be, I would suggest that the average Albertan
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can look for an immediate 20 to 25% increase in pay based on not having to pay federal tax.
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So say you're earning $70,000 a year, you know, you can be looking for $17,000 more disposable
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income based on the fact that we don't have to pay all of these ridiculous taxes that we're
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being charged. We have a dysfunctional relationship with the federal government of Canada. And I mean,
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it's, it's become clearer and clearer and clearer the further down the road we go. Like they're
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literally sabotaging our industry. They're literally attacking our people. They're literally
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overtaxing us. This is all conscious. Um, and we make it very clear in each of our presentations
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that this is actually what happens. This is not my words. These are the words that we see coming
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from the premier of Alberta all the time. She literally said that they're sabotaging our
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industry. Um, and we see it every day living where I live. I live in Bonneville, Alberta.
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So Bonneville produces 35% of Alberta's oil. And so we understand that every time that there's
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an attack on the oil patch, that we feel it directly. And you know, I mean, the stats are
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showing that they continue to go down the road of the, of the, of the carbon cap. And, uh, you know,
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there's stats that are saying that we'll lose 54,000 jobs as a consequence to that. Now,
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nowhere else in Canada is any of this happening. Like nowhere else in Canada, they are the attacking
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industry. Nowhere else in Canada won't even dream of attacking industry, but it seems to be
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something that's been going on here for literally 120 years. Uh, so you're not, you're not, uh,
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encouraged by what Carney's been saying about energy superpower, um, you know, building projects
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across the country. You don't believe that at all. Absolutely not. I mean, I mean, you know,
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once a relationship and once a trust is gone and once the relationship is severed, uh, we totally
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understand that with 82 ethics violations, the liberal governments are basically criminals.
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They're basically taking money from Albertans. And if you do not, you, we cannot, these people do not
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go to jail for the stuff that they do. Like one ethics violation after another ethics violation,
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any one of which would have brought down any of the previous government. And they had like 82 from
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what I understand. So, do you know, we arrived, can we, um, program parliament for $400 million missing,
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uh, printing 327 or however many billion dollars they did, uh, during COVID with no audit, no tracing the
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money, um, infrastructure projects with actually no projects that happened, but the money gets transferred
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over. Nobody's looking into any of that. So, so the purpose of this whole exercise is that, and the
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premier said this to me in, in meetings, in public meetings, actually, she said, uh, and I quote her on
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this. She said that when I became premier, I thought that I could change everything in six or seven months,
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but everything's broken. Everything's broken means everything's basically so crap that you can't fix it.
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What do you, what do you mean? So I'm sorry, go ahead, continue. And so if the, if that's actually
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the case and Pierre Polyev actually says the same thing and you can Google it and find it online
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anywhere. He said, everything's broken. I've been a little bit concerned along the way, Mitch, about
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really not having a face of this campaign. There's a number of different people kind of leading the way.
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Um, Jeffrey Rath is out there, Cam Davies from the Republican party. You're out there as well. Do you
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think we need sort of that cohesive voice that one person out there speaking on behalf of this
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movement, or are we okay to where we are right now with a number of people speaking?
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This is consciously done. Okay. And, and the reason, the reason why we're doing this
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consciously is here's the problem. The people of Alberta have to be the face of this. The people
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of Alberta are going to be the ones that ultimately decide this. They're going to go to a constitutional
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conference after this, and they're going to participate in that. And they're going to forever have to
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participate in a democracy moving forward. Um, because that is how we got here.
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Uh, what's happened is because of our apathy that we ended up coming here. Well,
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let's not mistake the fact that we have real good lives here in Alberta for the most part, up until
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just recently in the last couple or three years, um, people here always had the opportunity that they
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worked hard. You could, you know, earn a lot of money and become basically as, as, as wealthy as you
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almost want by the amount of work ethic and making a smart decision or two here, you could do very,
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very well as a lot of us have done. Um, and you know, I mean, I, there's a lot of people in Bonneville.
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That's like I said, the heart of the oil patch. So there's a lot of people there that have come off
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of, uh, you know, dirt, poor farms and have now become very, very wealthy people based on the work,
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uh, real good work ethic and nose down, butt up and working hard for years and years and have
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actually earned a lot of money. And, uh, that's the Canadian dream. That's the dream why people come
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to Alberta. However, we're seeing today that that is no longer the case. That is no longer the case
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for young people. Young people can't, uh, actually leave high school and work a couple of years and
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end up in a new house or a home, uh, with very few exceptions. So when I was growing up, that was
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something that was not at all out of the question. As a matter of fact, it was more common than not.
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Yeah. Um, I know you're busy. I've, I've, I've put down a few things and sort of a rapid fire thing.
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I don't want to, I don't want to take much time on these things, but these are the arguments
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against independence that I hear all the time. And maybe if you could quickly respond to these one,
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Alberta's landlocked. No problem. We're policy locked. We've always been landlocked. That's not
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going to change. We're policy locked. If we can get rid of government policies that are landlocked,
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that are actually locking us, uh, we will have no problem. We don't forget 90% of our oil export
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go south. Uh, they may be amenable to another south pipeline that we could put to the west coast.
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And we could also go north. Um, there's, and BC is actually improving a pipeline as we speak.
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That's right. Okay. 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
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rights for the land, but we're not leaving indigenous people behind. I can't, I'm not in a position to
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talk about what their land rights are. I just know that all crown land in Alberta belongs to the
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government of Alberta. So that that's not the question. The question is, is that their treaty
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rights are rights that were signed by them. Nobody's going to chase them down. As a matter of fact,
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we want to try and make Aboriginal people way richer by giving them, uh, actually tripling their income
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and giving them the opportunity to come out of poverty and to give them a better life. We're not
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leaving those people behind, but I really believe that the people that have, well, I don't believe,
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I know that we've showed our business plan to, uh, Aboriginal chiefs and they're very excited about
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it. Seniors are worried about their pensions. So just, just understand CPP has a portability clause.
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So it doesn't matter if you live in the country of Panama or in Costa Rica or in France or anybody,
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as a Canadian citizen, you paid into that CPP, it doesn't matter where you move, you're going to
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still get your Canada pension and your old age security. The other thing that you're not going to
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lose is your Canadian citizenship based on the fact that, you know, even our prime minister,
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Mark Carney has like three or four passports. Alberta independence talk is driving away
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investment and it will drive away investment, Mitch. That's what I'm hearing.
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Well, I'm going to share something with you as a 47 year old business. I've been in business for 47
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years, lower tax rates and more disposable income in our region of Alberta, based on a lower tax rate.
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And based on that formula, I told you Albertans will have between 25 and 45% more disposable income
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creates just the exact opposite environment. If we have lower tax rates and, uh, you know,
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it's possible based on our business plan that in 10 years, Albertans won't have to pay income tax in
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any way, shape or form. So if that's actually the case, um, Alberta business is going to thrive.
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More people come to Alberta than any other province in the country because we are prosperous here.
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What do you say to people who say that Albertans are whining? I see this all the time on X,
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uh, the oil and gas industry is doing just fine. Why do you need more pipelines?
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I, I, I, I saw, I saw, I stopped listening to liberals years ago.
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You know, I think it's my response to that. That's all they are. It's a bunch, you know,
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they're just a bunch of, you know, no good liberal misinformationists. Look, it's a process,
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you know, I'm not, you know, I'm not saying that, you know, people that want to join the United
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States are wrong, but the first step to getting there in any event is getting Alberta out of Canada
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and becoming an independent country. And then I think once we do become an independent country
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and we come as prosperous as I know we can become, you know, I don't think a lot of people are going
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to be talking about wanting to join the United States anymore. I mean, the plan going forward
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is to be in a complete free market with the U S with an open border, uh, free trade, uh, no tariffs
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on any goods and services on both sides of the border. Um, you know, increased, uh, you know,
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of the doubling of oil exports to the United States through additional pipelines, including
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a pipeline to tidewater through, uh, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state, you know, et cetera,
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et cetera. So, you know, we think the benefits of just straight independence, you know, far outweigh
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any benefits of, uh, of us statehood. What do you, what do you make? You brought up Daniel Smith.
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What do you make of her? There was a story. I think it might've been in the, um, Calgary sun,
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maybe the national post ran it as well, but they said that, um, even people who are independence
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minded here in Alberta, we, we trust Danielle Smith. I mean, she has been very outspoken.
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She's called on Carney to get rid of C 69, the pipelines ban C 48, the tanker ban, and a number
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of other things, seven other things she's demanded of Carney, who has basically just passed a new law
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to give him more power to decide on what gets built in this country. What do you make of Danielle Smith?
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Well, we're continuing to give her the benefit of the doubt. She gave Carney six months, two months
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ago. So she's only got four months left. Right. So, you know, we're going to give her that time,
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but you know, we're not buying the whole team Canada routine. Right. Um, you know, who wants to
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be on a team where every time you turn around, somebody is either elbowing you in the mouth or
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cross-checking you in the face. You know, Danielle says, I'm on team Canada. And then Quebec says,
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there will never be a pipeline through Quebec. And then Danielle says, I'm on team Canada.
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And then David Eby from British Columbia says, there'll never be a pipeline, another type pipeline
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to tide water through British Columbia. Right. So what kind of teammates are these? Right. So
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we're, you know, she's burning up an awful lot of political capital, um, trying to, you know,
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under the hollow slogan of a sovereign Alberta within a, you know, a strong Canada, right.
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United Canada. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. Right. Uh, within the United Canada.
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It doesn't make sense to me either. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, it's just,
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you know, it's just a hollow slogan. I mean, all it is, is a hollow slogan in favor of the status quo.
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And even if we, she was to get, you know, two more pipelines from Carney, our attitude is so what?
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So we get another pipeline. It's an extra $20 billion. Half of it goes to Ottawa. So she's really
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excited about more money going to Quebec or not, you know, but if all of that money were to stay
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in Alberta, we get a new pipeline and it's $20 billion that stays in Alberta. Well, that takes
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our fiscal capacity surplus up to, um, $70 billion. Then we get another pipeline that take, you know,
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that takes our fiscal capacity surplus up to 90 billion, you know, billion dollars. When we get to
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a fiscal capacity surplus of $90 billion, zero income tax in Alberta is, is, is a real thing.
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Right. Do you think there are a number of, um, I call them independence or sovereignty in the UCP?
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Do you think a number of them would support that? Oh God, I, I actually, well, I mean,
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their base is our base, right? Danielle Smith want to answer that as well.
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Well, I, I, I'm not sure where she's at. It seems very schizophrenic. One day she, she,
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you know, well, no, she claims that she's for a sovereign Alberta within the United Canada.
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Yeah. So that's her position. Again, it's a hollow slogan and it really doesn't demonstrate
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a lot of leadership, but anyway, but getting back to your question about support for independence
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within the UCP, there was a recent poll done that had support for independence within the UCP
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well over 65%. So that's a real problem that Danielle has. And I would say now, you know, just
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like I got a standing ovation at a UCP event last week, including senior members of the executive,
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the boards of the provincial executive, um, CA president sitting MLAs. I got a standing
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ovation in favor of Alberta independence at a UCP event. Yeah. So, you know, I would say every month
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that goes by and certainly as the numbers come out and people see that, uh, you know, uh, a strong,
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financially strong, independent Alberta as a reality, uh, you know, that, you know, by October
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support, I think for independence within the UCP could be well over 80%. You did an interview back
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in April. I just want to mention this. And you said, Albertans are sick and tired of being overtaxed
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and overregulated by morons who believe that punitive taxes on working families will change
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the weather. I love it. Cause that's exactly how I feel. Yeah. No. And I mean, that's exactly what it
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is. I mean, it reminds me of the ancient Mayans and the ancient Aztecs, right? In this case,
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what they're doing is they're literally cutting the beating hearts out of working men and women in
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Alberta through over taxation, you know, in the same way that the Mayans and the Aztecs were
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physically cutting the hearts out of people thinking it was going to change the weather.
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It's the same level of magical thinking, right? The other one I'd like everybody else to consider,
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you know, that's watching this is think about Carney when he talks about energy, energy corridors,
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like he's going to allow Alberta a pipeline. All right. The pipeline just happens to be a liquid
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CO2 pipeline from the heart of the tar sands, you know, out to Bonnieville coal lake to put CO2 back
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in the ground. His energy corridor has nothing to do, nothing whatsoever to do with oil and gas
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pipelines. And if Danielle Smith thinks that she is deluded, uh, people see, say we need to give the
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new liberal government a chance. Yeah, we did. And they screwed us every time we turned around.
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Yeah. This is the fourth time, right? Right. Yeah. That's right.
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Uh, a more friendly conservative government is just around the corner. So why not wait for that?
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Well, we don't have five years to wait. Carney's an existential threat to Alberta. We'll all be
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bankrupt by then. Okay. Indigenous groups, I know you work with them. They have a veto power over our
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resource projects. Oh, I, I don't believe that's the case. I've been litigating, uh, consultation
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cases by entire life of my entire working career. The law is actually quite the opposite on that
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point. You know, Carney's bill C five model where he gets to pick and choose which companies are at
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the trough, which ones get the subsidies, which ones are exempted from Canadian law. It's basically
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Mussolini's program for revitalizing the, uh, you know, the economy of Italy where Carney has now made
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himself the fascist dictator of Canada. No more, no more, no less. Let me throw this at you. Do you
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think you're being overly hyperbolic when you say something like that? Let's be play devil's
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advocate here with you. Well, I don't, I've read history. Why don't you go back and read the history
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about what was going on in and around Mussolini and you know, the entire fascist crony capitalist
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program. Okay. So this will be the final one in a rapid fire. The independence movement is being
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run by grifters and con artists. According to Jason Kenney, are you a grifter and a con artist,
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Jeff? I haven't, I haven't been paid a nickel for anything I'm doing on behalf of APP. And if you
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want to look at a grifter or a con artist, let's ask Jason Kenney, how he got his multimillion dollar,
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uh, uh, you know, uh, you know, you know, million dollar stipends from all these various corporations
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on his boards of directors, he sits and ask him why it was after ATCO where he sits on the board
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was fine. $35 million for defrauding Alberta power consumers, whether his reward for not ordering ATCO
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to repay all the consumers in Alberta that they defrauded, you know, was a seat on ATCO's board of
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directors. So, you know, I mean, you know, yeah, I mean, my favorite one too, is when Jason Kenney
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called me a quote unquote traitorous kook. You know, I mean, I can get into all of the kooky
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things that Jason's done over his career, including locking every Albertan illegally in their homes
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during COVID for which we were rightly threw him out of office onto his ass. I'm going to talk about
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Daniel Smith a little bit here. A lot of people are saying Daniel Smith, she, she came up with these
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nine things that she wanted eliminated. They haven't been eliminated. She's still holding out hope
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that Carney may throw her a bone when it comes to a pipeline, but people are saying she's trying to
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use these things as leverage, much like Quebec has used things for leverage since, well, they had a,
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a referendum at 80 and I was, I remember the one in 95 more than anything, but do you think that's
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what she's trying to do right now? And what is your take on Danielle Smith? Because I don't hold
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up much, much hope that Carney and the liberals and the rest of Canada is going to do anything for
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the province of Alberta. No, I, I don't either. I think, you know, I've got a lot of respect for
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Danielle. She's bright, she's articulate and she can get a message across and rhetorically she is
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standing up for Alberta rhetorically, but substantively, not so much. I don't know which way Danielle is
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lead is, is thinking about this, this whole issue of her ability to stand strong for Alberta, to negotiate
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with the federal government, thinking in her mind, that she and her team has a better ability to negotiate with the
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federal government than all previous provincial governments in Alberta. So I would ask the question,
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what makes her think that she can negotiate better terms than all previous provincial governments in
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Alberta? Because all we've done is gone backwards in over the 120 years where the federal government has
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taken more and more control of what should be provincial constitutional authority. And I don't see, I don't see that
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changing. But in a way, she's painted herself into a corner, because she made these nine demands. She said
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that would be a threat to national unity if she doesn't get them. And like you said, if the federal
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government throws her a bone on one of these things, well, is that enough? Really? I mean, if she wants to be
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a Maggie Thatcher type leader and, and have a steel resolve to protect Alberta, then she is going to
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have to say, come to the people of Alberta and say, citizens of Alberta, we have tried to negotiate with
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the federal government, we've made nine demands. Now, admittedly, they're all in relation to oil and gas,
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except single use plastics, right? But then they then the eight constitutional changes that she wants. Similarly,
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she's not going to be able to get and, and, you know, I'm going to cut her some slack and say, let's give her
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let's give her another month or so. And see where things shape shake out. I don't think they'll shake out in a way in which it
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looks her it, it makes her look like she is successful, unless she can come to the citizens
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of Alberta and say, citizens of Alberta, we can't get anything with this federal government. Okay,
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yes, they've given us this one thing, but it isn't nearly enough. And when you think about Brexit,
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the number one reason why Brexit occurred, when you look at the analysis, is because they didn't want
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Europe telling them what to do. They didn't want Europe telling the Brits what to do. By the same
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token, we're sick and tired of Ottawa telling us what to do. And here's one of the main reasons why we
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want out. Yeah, I just jump in here. I'm sorry to interrupt you. But no, no, no, no. What bugs me
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about this, Dennis, is that my province is begging the government for its prosperity. Well, I think
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it's even beyond just prosperity. It really truly is a freedom issue too. And, you know, when you
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consider that term sovereignty, you know, it's really a matter of freedom from external interference. And I
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like to say, you know, ask yourself the question, are we in this province, in any way, shape or form,
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by the federal government, subjugated, dominated, exploited, or self determination inhibited? And
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on every metric we are. Yes. When you look at federal persecution, you could say, you could say what we
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want is we want out from that persecution. And what do I mean by that? I mean, freedom from political
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persecution, economic, religious, cultural, medical, and regulatory persecution. We want
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self determination, we don't want the federal government telling us what to do. And that that
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freedom comes from getting out from under all federal regulation. Okay. And it also means getting
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out from under all federal taxation, so that we have the ability to purchase the goods and services that we
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want. And then eventually, we in this province, we would be able to eliminate provincial taxation as
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well. And, and this is freedom. It's freedom from regulations, and it's freedom from taxation.
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And this is really what what we're after that leads to prosperity.
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Are we going to be on a timeline for a referendum in 2026 if this continues to get pushed down the road,
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as it seems to be? Well, we're working on the 2026 timeline. Yeah, we expect from our
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internal discussions with government that we're looking at probably the spring of 2026. But
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anyhow, what is plan B, for example, if the question wasn't approved, or we weren't able to go ahead.
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Under those circumstances, your listeners need to understand that the Alberta Prosperity Project
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has twice the membership of all the political parties in the province of Alberta put together.
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All right. So we have the ability then to influence the constituency associations,
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for which many of the CA members are members of the Alberta Prosperity Project,
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as is the majority of the UCP Board of Directors. And it will be our responsibility then to change the
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MLA's in the next election so that they're MLA's that are in support of Alberta sovereignty.
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And then we would proceed under those circumstances. You see, because the Premier doesn't need
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the citizens to force a referendum on sovereignty. She actually could call for a referendum on Alberta
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Do you think she should, when Carney didn't have a pipeline on his list last week, do you think she
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should have called a referendum? I think what she should have done is she should have made it very
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clear her disappointment. Yeah. And I think she should have said, you know, we are going to evaluate
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further how we can use the Alberta sovereignty within the United Canada Act. And we may need to
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move forward more quickly on a referendum on Alberta sovereignty. We could talk, we could talk all day.
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I jotted down a whole bunch of things. I was watching some of your, some of the videos that
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were done at some of the events. What would be your main pitch to people who are sort of on the fence
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when it comes to Alberta independence? I mean, you're, you're preaching to the choir here. I want to see
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the province leave. I want to see us become an independent country, but what would be the main thing you
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would tell people and how it would benefit them if Alberta left? Sure. I think, well, there's a couple
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of things I'd say. I'd say number one, I get it. I understand the patriotism in Canada. We fought in
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two world wars, but what were we fighting for? Were we fighting for Canada or were we fighting for freedom?
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Because right now we're still fighting for freedom. And I would say to those people, you know, is,
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is this the same Canada now that you should justify, justifiably hold reverence for? Or has
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something changed? You know, do you feel as though you or your kids goals and aspirations are harder,
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harder to achieve now? Do you think freedom and prosperity for yourself and your and your children
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and future generations is just a dream? And there's an example of that, you know, in 1960,
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50% of young people at age 30 owned their home. Now it's 12%. So you see, so for people to think about,
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you know, the future and what's in their best interest, is it in their best interest to stay in Canada?
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And I say to these people, ask yourself, is your love for Canada greater than your love for your
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family and your children and future generations? Because if your love for your family is greater
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than it is for Canada, then when you're out from all federal regulation and taxation, and your take
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home pay instead of being 55% of your income is now 92%. And now you have the opportunity to truly
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purchase the goods and services that are in the best interests of you and your family, and to plan
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for your future, and to pay for goods and services that are less costly, because they no longer have
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those federal taxes on them. Is that not a better future for you and your family and future generations?
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So these are the kinds of things that that I would say to people. Some people are more attuned to the
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idea that they're losing their culture, because of certain things that are going on. And and religious
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freedom is under under strain as well. And we're we're seeing that there's a parliamentary committee right
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now, looking to end charitable status for churches. And and so religion is particularly Judeo Christian
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religions are are truly under attack. And we have an opportunity to get out from under that we have an
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opportunity to be a beacon of light a beacon of hope a beacon of a pathway to true freedom and prosperity,
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which is an which would be not just what we do, but as an example for the rest of Canada, and elsewhere
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around the world. And you can be sure that other regions in the world that want freedom and prosperity,
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they're looking at what we're doing. And they're hoping and praying we're successful.
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