The BIGGEST FOE of Alberta Independence (no one is talking about)
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Summary
The number one foe of the Alberta independence movement in Alberta is patriotism. Why is it so important? What is the point in having a referendum if the outcome is the same as the petition for a referendum by Thomas Lecasic?
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it's John and welcome to the channel hope you're having a great day today it's about two o'clock
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in the afternoon I'm out on a bike ride today overlooking the Bow River in southeast Calgary
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and I've been riding around thinking about something that I well that dawned on me this
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morning when I was watching Jeff Rath in the cost of freedom news conference earlier today
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when he was talking about how much money Alberta would save if it just got out of Canada now as
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you know I had Jeff on my channel last night it was a remarkable interview I hope you'll watch it
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here I share it as well Jeff certainly has the numbers and he had the numbers this morning
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talking about the amazing amount of money I think the word 70 billion dollars a year came out something
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like that he talked about the fact that we could end up getting rid of income tax in the province
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Aboriginal people could do far better getting three times the amount of money from Alberta
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than Ottawa if Alberta just got out of Canada but when I was watching Jeff talk about these things
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something came to mind that I'd not thought of before and I didn't think about it last night either
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and I think it's the number one foe of the independence movement in Alberta I think it's
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been there all along but the word hasn't been used and what is the word the word is patriotism
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that's the number one foe of the Alberta independence movement now for somebody like myself and maybe you
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they're all for Alberta independence you don't have to convince us I consider myself an Albertan not a
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Canadian if people ask me why I think Alberta should get its independence there's a lot of reasons but I
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think you could break it down to a single sentence Alberta gives so much money to the east and all we
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get back is disrespect so you don't have to convince me the people you have to convince to vote yes in
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an independence vote are the people who consider themselves patriots and they're patriots of Canada
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and you have to ask yourself as you run through all these amazing numbers and how much money could be
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saved and how much more money you could take home if we had independence how much money is patriotism
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worth to somebody who really believes in Canada who has an allegiance to their country and has an
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allegiance to their flag that's the question you have to ask and how do you break through that
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now don't get me wrong I think there'll be some people would easily give up their country for more
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money people do it all the time they move from one country to the next to different careers to make
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more money but will they give up their patriotism and that's something I think the independence
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movement has to address I think that's very important I think it's important in another
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way as well because there's something that I've been watching and I saw some youtubers earlier this
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morning Jeff said the same thing to me last night and he mentioned it this morning regarding this
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petition for a referendum by Thomas LeCasic I did a video a couple of days ago saying ignore this at
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Peril people are still dismissing it and I think that's wrong because patriotism comes into that
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one as well I watched a well-known youtuber from this area from the Calgary area today say he'll never
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get the votes well that may be the case but just after New Year's Pierre Polyev was a lock for being the
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Prime Minister of the country and he came in second and he was probably the biggest loser in the election
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election as all these people and I've called it faux Canadian patriotism voted for the Liberal Party
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because they were concerned about Canada becoming the 51st state I think it was more misplaced
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patriotism but do not dismiss Thomas LeCasic and what's going on with this it could be a problem I saw Jeff
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Rath he mentioned it to me last night that this will not stop an independence vote with the Alberta
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prosperity project but do we know that for sure so I think that needs to be addressed we need to think
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about patriotism in a couple of different ways now the other thing I think needs to be addressed is
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I question the person that has allowed this petition of LeCasics to go through I did on my
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channel the other day and it needs to be addressed again what's the point in having a referendum if the
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outcome is the same regardless of how people vote so we need to know if people vote no in LeCasics
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referendum if there is one does that mean Alberta leaves the country if the answer to that question
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is no then why have the referendum in the first place I question the competence of the person that
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allowed this to go through I question their politics I question their neutrality and I question their
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intelligence and I think the Alberta prosperity project needs to address this now don't just say
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you don't think they'll get the votes because these people are not voting against independence
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if they vote in a referendum they're voting because they're patriots and they don't want to leave
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Canada so that's all I've got to say anyway beautiful day out here in Calgary today absolutely fantastic
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I'm heading to an independence rally in Airdrie tonight probably see a lot of you there I
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