Polyv's appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast is getting positive reviews from conservatives, as you might expect. But even some of his liberal detractors in the media praised Polyv, especially when he declined to criticize Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Here s what happened when Rogan handed Polyv a chance to do just that.
00:01:18.780And remember, Joe Rogan has a large audience that includes a lot of pro-Trump people, including himself, at least back at the time of the election.
00:01:30.520So, objectively, did it help the cause of Canada as we're about to renegotiate trade?
00:05:46.980Surely it can't be the same type of reaction, right?
00:05:49.160Well, but that being said, I mean, they might be a bit quieter about it, but anybody that
00:05:53.580actually gets a paycheck and has a pay stub, you know, they can look at the portion of their pay
00:05:57.840stub where they see the amount of money going off their pay stub in federal income tax. And they
00:06:02.840start thinking about how much better off their life and the lives of their families are going to
00:06:07.080be when they no longer have to pay federal income tax. And I mean, you know, whether you're a fireman,
00:06:12.620a police officer, a nurse, you know, whatever it is, everybody that is working in an environment
00:06:18.460where they have, you know, income tax CPP and UI taken off when they internalize the fact that
00:06:24.140there's going to be zero income tax and their CPP and UI contributions are going to be cut in half
00:06:30.340because Albertans are subsidizing the rest of the country for CPP and UI. And people realize that
00:06:37.220their take home K is going to balloon by 33 to 37 or 38%. And all of that money is going to stay in
00:06:43.700their own bank accounts. I think that we're going to be finding a lot of that soft middle
00:06:48.240oh well i'm canadian support goes yeah but i don't want to pay income tax anymore why the hell
00:06:53.560wouldn't i you know if they're telling me in 2027 an independent alberta you know we'll reduce my
00:06:58.840tax burden by 45 why wouldn't i vote for that so i think people need to remember that that's you
00:07:05.520know that that's uh on the table and it's a realistic uh proposition i laughed though recently
00:07:10.920and there's a there's actually a clip on uh this hour has 22 minutes and that pudgy comedian that
00:07:17.480kind of looks like jason kenny that they have on that show right was doing this thing basically
00:07:21.740calling me a moron that i couldn't do math and doesn't jeffrey rath understand that you know
00:07:27.560that uh that alberta sends 15 billion dollars a year in federal income tax to ottawa that we
00:07:33.560collect 15 billion dollars a year in income tax from alberta you know how do they think that they
00:07:38.440can you know that they can live without that 15 billion dollars and of course i laugh and i'm
00:07:42.760going, hey, dumbass, right? Do you not understand that $15 billion of our tax money goes to Quebec
00:07:48.840every year? So we just have to get rid of equalization to Quebec, right? Let alone the
00:07:55.880Maritimes in that new have not welfare province called Ontario, right? We get rid of equalization
00:08:05.340and we can easily afford to not pay any federal income tax or that amount out of our paychecks
00:08:12.580We can double CPP. We can double our OAS payments and cut our CPP and EI contributions in half. That's what a free and independent Alberta looks like. And the math, totally maths. Like we had our chief economist actually run the numbers through our value of freedom AI model to make sure that I'm not talking out of my ass.
00:08:39.380And the numbers completely work and we'd still have a fiscal capacity surplus, you know, of 10 to 15 billion dollars after eliminating federal income tax, doubling CPP and UI, cutting EI and CPP contributions in half and still stand up an Alberta army, pay for our own border patrol, customs revenue, airports, you know, all of that stuff.
00:09:03.760right um we'd be easily able to afford it because of you know the fiscal capacity of alberta and i
00:09:10.540mean good god at 100 a barrel oil we can afford it even more right have you seen polling recently
00:09:19.280that tells you that you're winning oh yeah i mean there's a recent ecos poll that came out
00:09:25.380and it's interesting because ecos as you know are liberal pollsters they did a poll in september
00:09:31.040that they sat on until recently that showed support for Alberta independence of 41%.
00:09:36.200And, you know, I'm aware of another poll that came out that says it's 20%, but I look at those
00:09:40.860polls, you know, that are that low as just being purely fraudulent. Because I mean, the numbers
00:09:45.100have been going up. I mean, look at the lines of people lining up into the dark in January
00:09:50.260to sign the independence petition. I mean, all of the momentum for independence is on our side
00:09:55.920right now. I can't imagine that support for independence has dropped from 41% in September
00:10:02.480to 20% today. I don't know who these people are polling. They must be going to government offices
00:10:09.120at Edmonton and polling government bureaucrats or polling university professors. People that
00:10:16.480live on federal subsidies obviously generally don't favor independence. I don't know who they're
00:10:23.600polling, but they're certainly not in touch with the rank and file, you know, rank and file Albertans.
00:10:29.120You touched on this a little bit earlier about the patriotism angle, which is one of the things
00:10:33.560that Pierre Polyev was talking about, saying that Albertans are very patriotic in terms of
00:10:39.420their love for Canada. And he says that that's not going to change. So how do you counter that?
00:10:44.980Well, I think Pierre, like I said, Pierre hasn't lived in Alberta really for 30 years, right? He
00:10:49.560basically lives in ottawa he only comes back to alberta when his you know the ottawa voters that
00:10:55.320elect them don't elect them anymore and he has to run in a by-election in alberta and pretend he's
00:10:59.420albertan you know to get elected um you know i just think he's out of touch you know and again
00:11:04.560like i said it's alberta independence denial syndrome you know if he thinks that there isn't
00:11:09.540a realistic possibility of alberta voting itself out of canada this year he's simply not paying
00:11:14.220attention and he's completely out of touch with the grassroots of alberta i mean his own riding
00:11:18.600of Battle River Crowfoot is one of the strongest, most pro-independence ridings in Alberta.
00:11:25.080There was a Leger poll that was done after the last federal election that had support amongst
00:11:30.620Conservative Party of Canada voters for independence at 70% after Carney won the last
00:11:37.760election, right? Where do you think that support's going to be when Carney bribes his way to a
00:11:43.480majority government. People here will be outraged. We're all aware that Carney just bought off an
00:11:50.800Inuit woman for $200 million to her husband's company in order to get her to cross the floor
00:11:56.760from the NDP. How do you think Albertans are going to react when Mark Carney buys off a couple
00:12:04.180more members of parliament with hundreds of millions of our tax dollars in order to get a
00:12:09.780majority so he can ram all of his, you know, totalitarian nonsense legislation down all of
00:12:17.220our throats. People here are going to be beside themselves. I asked Premier Daniel Smith about it
00:12:23.760as well. Let's listen to what she had to say during our recent conversation. Is the possibility
00:12:29.240of an independence referendum in Alberta helping your position? I mean, do you see it
00:12:34.560as a kind of bargaining chip or as leverage in your negotiations with Ottawa?
00:12:40.500Well, I look at it as a fact that both I have to deal with and the prime minister has to deal with.
00:12:46.380The independence polling got up to 42% when the liberals won government again. It's the highest
00:12:53.580I'd ever seen it. And so when I met with the prime minister, I said, we've got to solve this problem.
00:12:58.940We've got to give Albertans hope again. The fact that you have anywhere from a million to a million
00:13:04.020and a half adult voting Albertans thinking that the country doesn't work, that that should be
00:13:08.760something that both myself and the prime minister take seriously and we have. And so I think it's
00:13:12.560part of the reason why we were able to negotiate on an MOU and we're working through at least some
00:13:17.440of the major pressure points. So what'd you think of that? Well, you know, again, it sounds to me
00:13:24.800like Danielle Smith has been seduced by Mark Carney the same way she was seduced by Jim
00:13:29.180apprentice when she crossed the floor uh with the wild rose right it's mark mark mark my friend
00:13:35.500mark i love bark and uh you know and the rest of us aren't buying it i mean she wants to work hand
00:13:40.380in hand with mark carney and he's despised in alberta right so i guess if that's what she's
00:13:45.740hitching her wagon to um best of luck to her i don't think it's a very good uh it doesn't look
00:13:51.200very good for her going forward what i do like from that last interview that you did with her
00:13:55.660though, is her acknowledgement that, you know, there's a million to a million and a half of us
00:14:01.320that want out of Canada. Think about that in real terms. The last election, our election turnout
00:14:06.420was 1,777,000 people. A million people is 56% of the last voter turnout in the last election.
00:14:15.920A million and a half is almost 80%. So if she's getting those numbers from Janet Brown or whoever
00:14:23.620her polling people are and that's literally what she thinks the numbers are and i don't think she's
00:14:28.480wrong um at least on the million number for sure right um alberta's leaving canada this year right
00:14:35.600and uh you know the other thing to keep in mind too like when we get back to that you know um uh
00:14:47.020conservative voters in Alberta support independence. So 60% of Albertans in the last
00:14:54.440election voted conservative, right? So you run the math on that, and that might be where she's
00:14:59.660getting her 42% number, that 60% of 70%, right, is 42%. So, you know, that's where we're at. And
00:15:08.660I think that the support for independence has only gone up since the last election.
00:15:13.040And every time Carney bribes another person, you know, in an anti-democratic fashion into crossing the floor to support the Liberal Party, support for independence in Alberta spikes, he bribes his way to a majority government.
00:15:28.600It's game over for Alberta remaining in Canada.
00:15:32.160Have you had any more discussions with the Americans in DSP on this topic?
00:15:37.380Yeah, I'm in touch with them on an ongoing basis, and they're very interested and very supportive of what we're doing. And obviously, we're keeping it within the rules of all the, you know, there's all this speculation, where are they getting their money? All of our money and all of the donations that we're raising, 100% grassroots Alberta support. We're not receiving any funding from the United States. But obviously, we're getting a lot of moral support, right? I mean, I think the Trump administration supports Alberta independence.
00:16:06.320I know they do because I've met with them.
00:16:08.360And, you know, I had that comment of Scott Besson,
00:16:10.660sorry, to Jack Posobiec, you know, a month ago,
00:16:14.220where, you know, court tongue-in-cheek,
00:16:15.860oh, I understand that there might be a referendum this year.
00:16:19.340And then he says, oh, and I understand that Albertans,
00:16:22.240you know, want a pipeline down to the Pacific Northwest
00:16:31.840So, you know, it's, you know, it's exciting times.
00:16:35.160I think Alberta has a brilliant future ahead of itself as soon as it can cut itself loose, you know, from the rotting corpse of Canada, right?
00:16:41.820I mean, you know, Canada is basically a dying communist country and we need to get away from it.
00:16:47.660And when will this referendum take place, do you think?
00:16:50.840Well, Danielle's already scheduled it. It's going to be scheduled for October, right?
00:16:54.440And she said that, you know, if we get our signatures, we're on the ballot.
00:16:57.000And, you know, I keep telling all of our canvassers and all of our people that I want them to canvas and doorknock and gather signatures like we're 100,000 votes behind.
00:17:07.600But, you know, that's because the more signatures we get over what we need, the more political legitimacy we have, you know, going forward.
00:17:16.220I mean, if we have 25% of the voting population of Alberta signing a petition for independence, right, then it's on a clear question and not this wishy-washy thing that Lukasik was doing.
00:17:29.820We have 25% of the adults in Alberta that are signing that they want Alberta out of Canada.
00:17:38.120I mean, these people, just in the act of signing their signature, have been radicalized in favor of independence, right?
00:17:46.220So we're actually glad that Danielle made us go through this exercise of mobilizing, you know, all of Alberta to sign the petition and get out and pledge their support for, you know, taking Alberta out of Canada.
00:17:58.160Because, you know, we think that that's going to lead to a successful referendum result.
00:18:03.060And hopefully in 2027 that Alberta will no longer be part of Canada.
00:18:08.220How many signatures have you got so far, can you say?
00:18:10.960No, I promised I'll keep my big mouth shut on that one.
00:18:15.220I mean, we're let's put it this way. I'm not losing any sleep over whether we're going to make the statutory that, you know, whether we're going to make the statutory number.
00:18:22.340I mean, the big thing for me is that we want to get, you know, we want to shatter that number.
00:18:28.400So we just everybody just needs to keep moving forward and and working as hard as they can.
00:18:33.560I keep telling people, you know, work like the future, you know, your future life and the lives of your children and grandchildren depend on it because they do.
00:18:40.860Right. I mean, there's no two ways about it.
00:18:42.880you want a brilliant future for your children and your grandchildren, you know, and yourself,
00:18:46.800you know, vote for independence, right? And I mean, we know what we get when we vote for
00:18:50.580independence, right? No more federal income tax, no more GST, no more dumb federal regulations,
00:18:57.800no, you know, people, you know, idiots at Ottawa waking up in the middle of the night, afraid of
00:19:01.500one of our firearms and wanting to take away our property, you know, shutting down our oil
00:19:05.460industry, all that stuff, right? You know, we know what we get when we vote for independence
00:19:09.860And the people that are going to be voting to remain in Canada, like, what are they getting?
00:19:14.360Oh, I got to get out today and vote because I'm going to get more of the same.
00:19:18.160I can't wait to have some more of the same.
00:19:32.220I mean, you know, like, you know, I don't think a liberal has ever seen anything that he hasn't wanted to cheat, liar, steal his way around.
00:19:39.860Right. I mean, you know, let's be real here. I mean, you know, it's, you know, you know, and, you know, and they all, you know, I mean, you know, that's what they do. I mean, just look at Cardi bribing his way to a majority government. It's completely anti-democratic. You can't tell me that, you know, that an Inuit person with a holding company with two employees has the capacity to build $500 million worth of houses. Right.
00:20:07.640And of course he doesn't, but we know who's going to build the houses for him, right?