Jeff Rath： China wants to STOP Alberta independence
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The government is testing digital IDs, and it s not even telling us about it. Plus, a new carbon tax, and a carbon capture and storage project that would have doubled the size of Alberta s existing carbon footprint.
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conservative party leader pierre polyev is calling on the carny government to release
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details of the gordy howe bridge agreement with the united states polyev posted this on x prime
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minister canadians are not stupid stop speaking in riddles stop contradicting yourself in the same
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breath. Just own up that you signed a deal to hand over half the profits on a bridge that was
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100% built by Canadian tax dollars before getting repaid. Release the deal and let taxpayers judge.
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Now here's what the prime minister had to say about it. It's not splitting the tolls of the
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bridge. It is an agreement for 15 years to split net revenues. Splitting of tolls, any
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sharing of the toll revenue won't happen until all of the debt, all of the debt is
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repaid. We will split net revenues over the course of the first 15 years. And those net
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revenues are after operational costs. So it's manning the toll boost, it's maintenance,
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It's snow removal, a series of other operational costs.
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The government of Canada has quietly begun testing digital ID.
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Cabinet has begun testing digital ID apps on an experimental basis.
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The government insists there's nothing to worry about,
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that no mandatory national ID system is under consideration.
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And yet, they kept this under wraps until Blacklock's reporter got hold of a briefing note from the Department of Employment.
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The government's own polling shows Canadians already have a low level of trust for government institutions.
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According to the briefing note, the pilot projects were launched last fall.
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One involved digital licensing of air traffic controllers, and the other testing digital
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temporary resident visas for Moroccan visitors. No reason given for selection of these particular
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groups. Our guest today is Jeff Rath, legal counsel for the Alberta independence movement,
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or one of them anyway. Jeff, coming to us from Calgary. Welcome, Jeff.
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Hey, Mark. I'm actually coming to you for Foothills, Alberta.
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corrupted that's beautiful area of the country yeah you bet about man for starters i know we've
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got other stuff to get to but this idea that the government has been in a sneaky way testing
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digital id i can't imagine that things in alberta would suggest that the people there would like
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that oh god no i mean we're out working on a draft constitution that contains the constitutional
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right now to have your humanity digitized in the zeros and ones so that Mark Carney and the
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Ministry of State and his bosses and the Ministry of State Security in China can control every aspect
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of our lives. Yeah, I mean, the fact that they come out and say, but, you know, we're not planning
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to roll this out nationally. I mean, you don't have to worry. And yet, on the other hand,
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they keep this quiet until Blacklock's reporter gets wind of a briefing note and writes a story
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about it. No, it's just, it's like a lot of the sneaky backroom planning stuff that they're doing
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during COVID, right? I mean, it's all, for the bureaucrats, it's all about control, right? I mean,
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you know, no sooner was COVID over, but people don't know this, Theresa Tam, before she left,
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issued a document declaring a public health emergency over climate change, right? So,
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you know it's a public health emergency guess what the biggest drivers of climate change are right
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capitalism ableism and heteronormativity this isn't a federal government document
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like these people are insane they want to control every aspect of our lives yeah it's it's interesting
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too listening to the prime minister talk about the uh the carbon tax and how the uh it doesn't
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really work out to when you when you get out to the the back end how would i put this
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i can't really explain how he's talking about this thing but he's saying that yeah we charge
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a hundred dollars but really it's only 20 bucks at the did you hear him say that and and that's
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not true either because they're taking away a whole bunch of the loopholes and they set a floor
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price under the carbon credit market at 90 so um you know it's you know basically they're going to
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be paying the full freight um on whatever the new industrial carbon tax rate is going to be
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when cardi initially said that it was going to be a 600 in industrial carbon tax he knew exactly what
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the numbers are and he knew exactly what he's doing he's putting the alberto oil field out of
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business and you know there's all this talk about pipelines with him and danielle you know are just
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ludicrous because there's not going to be enough oil to fill the pipelines nobody's expanding any
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oil sands mines right now because of all this carbon catcher capture decarbonization nonsense
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And Esso or Imperial Oil just canceled a massive $10 billion Curl Lake mine expansion because
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they were told that to do this mine expansion, they'd have to contribute $10 billion to carbon
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capture and decarbonization, effectively doubling their capital expenditures on the project.
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Why do you think Imperial Oil has moved its headquarters to Houston?
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They're going to get out of the mining business because it's not a profitable business.
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because of carney and because of danielle that's why public dollars have to be allocated to these
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projects because oh sure let's tax everything to the point where that no longer makes sense
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and then we're going to take those same dollars that we tax away from people to try to subsidize
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the very industries that we're destroying i mean it's you know it's just lunacy but of course the
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whole point in this is all the look mark carney's a banker and all his buddies at brookfield and
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anywhere else they all get their sticky figures in the middle in between and are gobbling up all
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the money you know in in the middle right i mean there's lots of people getting rich off of this
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it is not the people that do the work and the produce the oil and the gas let's talk a little
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bit about your own uh legal issues at the moment you're dealing with the native indian band in
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alberta i guess you had a fee arrangement with them there's a dispute over that and i suppose
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in a way it's kind of a distraction from your campaign to bring about independence for albert
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But I guess what everybody needs to understand, I'm not the independence movement, right?
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The logic of Alberta independence and the fact that we send $70 billion a year to Ottawa,
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you know, to get less than $20 billion a year back, you know, the logic of independence,
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you know, isn't destroyed by, oh, Jeff Rassett, a fetus beat with a, you know, with a former
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I mean, you know, all of this, the timing of it is very intentional.
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I think that, you know, the fact that, you know, you've got guys like Jason Kenney gleefully, you know, having fun at my expense.
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I mean, all I'd say to Jason is that all of my all of my finances are completely transparent.
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Like, I mean, at the end of the day, it is what it is.
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You know, we're dealing with it in a forthright, you know, manner.
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You know, we're going to work our way through it.
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But as far as I'm concerned, it has little or nothing to do with the logic of Alberta independence and the need for, you know, Alberta to free itself from control by Mark Carney.
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I mean, Mark Carney, I don't think he's a prime minister of Canada.
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I think he's the undertaker of Canada and he's literally destroying this country and he's burying this.
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And for, you know, for the for the for purposes of turning the entire country, you know, over to, you know, over to Europe and China.
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Like Mark Carney is not a Canadian. He doesn't like us.
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You know, he wants to be in Europe, you know, eating, you know, $1,500 a plate,
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Chateau Briand, you know, like we see on his airplane bills, right?
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You know, it's, you know, and he's literally, you know, killing our country.
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And that's so all of his, you know, all of his vulture capitalist friends
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can come up and gobble up, you know, large chunks of the most valuable pieces
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Now, do you think that this native band that you have a dispute with
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as being egged on by people who oppose the independence movement.
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You know what, I'm not going to comment on that.
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I mean, the big thing is, and I posted that on Axe,
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the First Nation that's coming after me right now,
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they've been fighting for years to get money out of the trust
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So they're basically trying to say that I'm not owed anything for fees
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so that all of that money can go to the chief and counsel,
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not to, you know, not to the, not to me or not to the First Nations members. So effectively what
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they're saying is thanks for working for us for 15 years. You shouldn't get paid anything and all
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of the money should go into an account for chief and counsel so we can buy new trucks and, you know,
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do whatever we want to do. Right. I mean, it's, it's unfortunately what it is. And in fact,
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they lost on that point of the court of appeal. They were trying to take, they were trying to
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take my fees and have them allocated to themselves in both the lower court, the court of appeal said
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know so that's effectively what's going on there you know it's just you know that there it's the
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same you know the same attempt to do the same things through other means effectively right
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so they froze the court froze eight and a half million dollars of your yeah it's all if all of
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that's temporary we're going to be back in court soon i haven't i've had a lot of as a lot of people
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know i've had a lot of very trying personal circumstances over the last um number of months
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um you know and uh you know including when a lot of this came down i was literally in the emergency
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room of uh you know of a hospital in southern alberga writing lawyers on the other side to
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saying look first of all i gotta retain counsel second of all and you know i'm currently in
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hospital in the emergency room we need to adjourn this for a week so that we can get this dealt with
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appropriately and everything just steams ahead and every time you know somebody goes into court
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on my behalf to ask for an adjournment you know new orders issue so uh you know without me ever
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having the, you know, having the opportunity to file evidence or speak to my, you know, speak to
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my side of the story, because there's obviously another side to this. And our view is that
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everything we did was, you know, authorized by the terms of the trust and by the black letter
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wording of court orders that said that funds were to be paid out of trust in accordance with the
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terms of the trust, you know, that are included, you know, 20%, you know, my 20% fee is a first
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charge on proceeds. So, I mean, all of that's before the courts, it's all going to be dealt
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with uh in an open and transparent manner and you know for guys like jason kenny that are you know
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that are beaking off in the background you know hey jason i dare i dare you to open up your finances
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to the degree of transparency that mine have always been so um you know it just is what it is
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and i really can't say more to it than that now yeah well you're one of the people who are the
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architects of getting rid of jason kenny so oh it's what he thinks is payback um you know
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on his part. And it's like, you know, anything Kenny says, I just always love to just read the
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comments under what, anything he posts. And it's like, not always 90% to 10, you know, shut up.
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You fired you for a reason, go home. You're not even an Albertan, you know, like just read all
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the comments under everything Kenny says. He's, he's probably the least, um, you know, the least
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popular politician in Alberta. I'm not a politician and notwithstanding all of my legal
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troubles right now that we're working our way through, I would wager I'm more popular in my
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home province of alberta than jason kenny is and he hates it i mean he just can't stand it right
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and i know you've got some issues with daniel smith as well and well i don't know that there
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i don't know that there are issues i find it's kind of funny that there's nancy and kathleen
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ganley and uh you know all these people oh yeah daniel smith you know jeff rath her friend jeff
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rath no it's like she's friends with nancy carney kenny you know whatever she's literally campaigning
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against democracy in Alberta right now, right? She promised us we'd have a vote if we got on a
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binary question, if we got our 178,000 signatures, we have our 178,000 signatures. So what does she
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do? She says, oh, we're going to have a vote to have a vote. Well, no, no, you promised us a real
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vote and you've reneged on that promise. And not only is she reneged on the promise, like she's
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campaigning against having a vote to have a vote, right? So she's literally campaigning against
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democracy and her base just aren't buying it. People are really, really upset with her right
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now. And on top of it, you know, what I said six months ago about the MOU, everybody else is
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finally waking up to that. This thing is worse than the national energy program in terms of the
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damage it's going to do to the Alberta economy that Mark Carney saying, oh, we have to unleash
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Alberta energy. But, oh, here are all my preconditions. So he puts in all of these
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preconditions for, um, uh, uh, pipelines to be built that literally got the Alberta oil and gas
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industry. Danielle's meekly going, Oh, Oh, that's a good deal. We're going to get a pipeline. It
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isn't this wonderful, right? It's just awful. Like it's just the level of leadership in this
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province right now is just, is just abysmal and people see through it. I mean, I think Danielle
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is going to have a real issue at this year's annual general meeting. If not before I, you know,
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I constantly am, you know, talking to people who are, you know, uh, telling you that people are
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organizing on the ground to have a special general meeting because the rank and file base of the ucp
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can't stand what danielle smith is doing she she doesn't she hasn't internalized that a super
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majority of her own party favor independence so she thinks that you know that her own personal desire
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to appease mark carney and um you know be part of the in crowd in uh you know in ontario um is more
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important than the wishes of a super majority of her party base and i don't think that that's how
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democracy works and it was that level of arrogance that led to jason kenny's demise
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well i mean we haven't spoken since the recent two uh announcements pipeline related announcements
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the announcement with doug ford premier of ontario uh you're all right they're not real
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announcements it's like daniel last year oh sorry mark did you finish sorry i mean you know what i'm
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referring to there's the yeah the reviewers yeah there's been two phony pipeline announcements put
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forward by danielle smith one alleging that they're somehow going to magically build a pipeline
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um to roberts bank over uh you know in a timely fashion over the objections of every first nation
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in in uh south southern british columbia and this you know pipeline to ontario neither one of these
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pipelines would get built without government money so you think danielle's base is going to
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stand up for Danielle saying, Oh, I could build a pipeline, but you know, I'm going to need 50
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billion tax dollars to do it. People are going to lose their minds over it. Like she's literally,
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you know, and if you look at tapes of what she said, even a year or two years ago, where she
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said, Oh, it would be a complete failure. If government money, we couldn't create the conditions
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for industry to build the pipeline on their own. And the government had to come in and with money
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to build the pipeline, that would be a complete failure of leadership. She said, well, that's
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where she's at now she's basically admitting that her leadership was a complete failure
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she's completely failed to assert alberta's jurisdiction and sovereignty over mark carney's
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preconditions uh you know telling us that we have to decarbonize our oil before we can move it out
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of alberta any other alberta premier would be going to war over this and you know and there's
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danielle hubbin mark at the stampede you're holding his hand and you know it's just disgusting like
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it's just it's the leadership in this province right now it's just it's such a low and abysmal
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level that it's just unbelievable is she facing a challenge to her leadership i mean could she face
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ouster like well i understand that the grassroots of the party is all working in that direction i
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mean they're nobody's happy like you know people in the oil and gas industry are happy people in
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the party aren't happy um you know danielle smith has basically um revealed herself to be a carny
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liberal and, you know, has crossed the floor for the second time in her career and people
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Well, how is the campaign for, I guess, the referendum to have a referendum going?
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I mean, there's, you know, like we've got, we're out fundraising everybody on the other
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side by, I can't even remember the margins now, but it's, it's exponential.
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You know, we've got dozens, if, you know, we have not, you know, we have dozens of third
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party advertisers that are organizing in and around independence, massive signage campaigns
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going on. The big thing for us is how unfair elections, Alberta is being, you know, we're
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made, we have to set up TPAs. We have to account for every dollar. And there's Thomas Lucaset,
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who a lot of people think are getting money from the communist Chinese and wherever else he's not,
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he hasn't filed a single financing report and he won't, he says, Oh, I'm not, I'm not campaigning
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against a referendum i'm just campaigning because i love canada and elections alberta says oh that's
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fine i mean you should see the correspondence we get on the app side and all the accusations that
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they make against us when you know technically if we were to go out and campaign for full-on
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independence right it's like oh no i'm not campaigning on the question out of question
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i'm campaigning because i want alberta out of canada not to have a vote on it i want alberta
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out of Canada. If they applied the same standard to us that they're applying to Lukasik, we wouldn't
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need to report any of our fundraiser because we're not campaigning on the question. We're
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campaigning on full sovereignty now. Right. But, you know, like I said, I always say that elections
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Alberta wouldn't have any standards if they didn't have double standards.
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Since you brought it up, Jeff, do you really believe that there's Chinese interference in
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the end of independence oh my god i i just got off the phone with a good friend of mine um uh
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retired lieutenant colonel um uh david redmond who's the former head of um uh counterterrorism
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for alberta and you know like david said like if everybody knew how deep um the problems we have in
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this province are um they would be shocked in terms of the amount of influence that china now
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has in alberta the degree of control that they're taking over the nvp and various other political
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parties and and organs um you know on and on and on right it's uh you know and we have an election
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after election in canada where oh you know big report oh yeah there was chinese interference
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we can't tell you who they interfered with or the 11 mps that they helped get elected but none of it
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none of it affected the the outcome of the election and this is all secret and you can't we can't have
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the names of the 11 mps probably half of whom are in mark carney's cabinet who are elected by
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communist China, right? So do I think that's going on? Absolutely. And I mean, you know,
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not just myself, this isn't like, oh, you know, Jeff Roth is Joe McCarthy. This is going on and
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experts in the field, including, you know, former chiefs of the Canadian, you know,
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of the Canadian Defense Service, guys like Lieutenant Colonel Redmond, who are experts
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in counterterrorism and foreign intelligence. All of these guys, you know, publicly have said
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that the level of pernicious Chinese influence in Alberta
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has increased tenfold over the last 20 years.
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in this particular campaign on behalf of the Remain?
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I mean, look at every policy that Trudeau came out with,
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You can't tell me that putting all these punitive taxes on our oil industry and shutting our oil and gas industry in on the ground for these minuscule reductions in CO2 that have been completely replaced by all the carbon, by all the forest fires in Ontario in a week, right?
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That all the damage that they're doing to our economy isn't for the benefit of people outside of Canada.
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You know, you destroy the value of our industry.
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You destroy the value of all of our oil and gas assets in Alberta, right?
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Who benefits? Chinese state-owned companies are coming in, buying up all of our tar sands assets.
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And once they control enough of them, then I'm sure that we're going to see the rules change.
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Like, there's no two ways about it. That's what's going on. We're watching it in real time.
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Nexen, Meg Energy, Syncrude. I mean, these are all companies that PetroChina is actually operating as PetroChina in Alberta.
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You know, all of these Chinese state-owned corporations are slowly but surely
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expanding their footprint into Alberta oil, you know, the Alberta oil patch.
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And, you know, they're taking it over and they're buying effectively what amount to distressed assets
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because the value of these companies and the value of these assets
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have been gutted by all of these stupid carbon regulations.
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So, you know, you can't tell me that any of this is accidental.
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Well, maybe it's all just a big coincidence, right?
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You know, and everybody says correlation doesn't equal causation.
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But my response to that would be that, you know, correlation calls for in-depth investigation
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Well, do you think the federal government on that point is turning a blind eye to interference
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in the independence fight like they did during at least one of the previous few election
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Justin Trudeau had been warned about Chinese interference and basically did nothing about it.
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And now we have this campaign going on in which obviously the liberals have no interest in seeing Alberta go its own way.
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And so if you have interference from a foreign power, they can kind of play like they don't know about it.
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Well, again, all of our accounts are completely transparent, right?
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So I can tell you that there's no U.S. government money going into any of our campaigns or anything that we're doing, any of our meetings in Washington.
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You know, they didn't pay for us to fly down there.
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We all paid our own way, you know, whatever, whatever.
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You know, so, you know, we know that there's no U.S. interference.
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We want Lokasik to open his books so we can see where he's getting his money from.
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But, of course, elections Alberta won't make him do it.
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Oh, he's just a Canadian patriot saying he loves Canada.
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you know in the middle of a referendum campaign over whether a permission
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pervaded canada right it's yeah like i said it's just uh you can't make this
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stuff up elections alberta is about as crooked as it gets right like uh you
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know and you know just the level of harassment i got i got a demand of
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notice the other day from elections alberta they want they're conducting an
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investigation into me for you know credit you know criticizing the way they
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handled thomas lukastic's um campaign alleging that i was interfering in a
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petition campaign and this is all but all my posts and everything i said were after the fact
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after the campaign was over but i'm now then i've been served a demand to appear and a notice that
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i have to be attend for an examination on social media posts that i made about you know how about
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elections alberta double standards with regard to lucaset they're completely out of control they're
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completely in the tank for the other side and uh you know the and the government's not doing
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anything to rein them in. It's just ridiculous. Jeff, thank you so much for coming on the show.
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We appreciate it. Yeah, no, my pleasure. Thank you for having me on.