Juno News - Jeff Rath Addresses Legal Battle with First Nation

On this episode of the First Edition podcast, I sit down with Dr. Jeffrey Rassett to discuss his ongoing dispute with the First Nation band in Alberta, and why he believes they should get their money back from Chief and Council.

00:00:00.000 let's talk a little bit about your own uh legal issues at the moment you're dealing with the

00:00:05.360 native indian band in alberta i guess you had a fee arrangement with them there's a dispute over

00:00:12.080 that and i suppose in a way it's kind of a distraction from your campaign to bring about

00:00:17.760 independence for albert i guess what everybody needs to understand i'm not the independence

00:00:22.080 movement right the logic of alberta independence and the fact that we send 70 billion dollars a

00:00:27.840 year to ottawa you know to get less than uh 20 billion dollars a year back uh you know the logic

00:00:34.000 of uh of independence you know isn't uh destroyed uh by oh jeff rassett a fee dispute with a you

00:00:41.040 know with a former client i mean you know all of this i the timing of it is very intentional i think

00:00:46.240 that uh uh you know the fact that you know you got guys like jason kenny gleefully um you know uh

00:00:52.080 having fun at my expense i mean all i'd say to jason is that all of my all of my finances are

00:00:57.200 completely transparent you know what about you right like i mean at the end of the day it is

00:01:03.040 what it is it's before the courts uh you know we're dealing with it in a forthright uh you know

00:01:07.760 manner you know we're going to work our way through it but as far as i consider it has

00:01:11.200 little or nothing to do with the logic of alberta independence and the need for uh you know alberta

00:01:16.240 to free itself from control by mark carney i mean mark carney i don't think he's a prime minister

00:01:21.760 of canada i think he's the undertaker of canada and he's literally destroying this country and

00:01:26.400 he's burying us and and for you know for the for the for purposes of turning the entire country

00:01:31.920 you know over to you know over to europe and china like mark carney's not a canadian he doesn't like

00:01:37.360 us you know he wants to be in europe you know eating you know fifteen hundred dollar a plate

00:01:41.760 shadow brian you know like we see on his airplane bills right mike mark carney's not a canadian

00:01:47.520 he doesn't have our values you know it's you know and he's literally you know killing our country

00:01:52.880 and he's doing it for a reason and that's so all of his you know all of his vulture capitalist

00:01:56.640 friends can come up and gobble up you know large chunks of the most valuable pieces of canada for

00:02:01.280 pennies on the dollar now do you think that this native band that you have a dispute with is being

00:02:07.360 egged on by people who oppose the independence movement and well you know what i'm not i'm not

00:02:13.520 gonna i'm not gonna comment on that all these matters are before the court i mean the the big

00:02:18.080 thing is and i posted that on x i mean the the first nation that's coming after me right now

00:02:23.280 they've been fighting for years to get money out of the trust into the hands of chief and council

00:02:27.600 right so they're trying to you know they're basically trying to say that i'm not owed anything

00:02:31.360 for fees so that all of that money can go to the chief and council not to you know not to the doctor

00:02:36.800 Not to me or not to the First Edition's members.

Juno News - July 21, 2026

Jeff Rath Addresses Legal Battle with First Nation

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