00:09:53.200How many have been to an APP event, people?
00:09:58.200Okay, it's about 50-50 tonight, is the way I look at it.
00:10:02.240All right, so forgive me as I start, because I'm going to tell a couple of stories that those that have been here before have heard, but here we go.
00:10:11.160So I want to start out with George Bush Sr., okay, the former president of the United States.
00:10:17.700And he famously said that he ate broccoli.
00:10:22.040When he was a kid, his mother forced him to eat broccoli. Now that he's the president
00:10:28.040of the United States, he says, justifiably, no one can force me to eat broccoli. Which brings up
00:10:34.760a poll that was conducted not too long ago, and the question posed was,
00:10:39.480what is the most hated vegetable in Canada? And it turned out to be Trudeau.
00:10:51.160It's even funny when we heard it already, I know, I know, so you didn't know it was coming back today, didn't you, but this is the way it goes.
00:20:20.760And when I say freedom from persecution, I mean freedom from political, economic, regulatory, religious, and cultural persecution, as well as regulatory persecution.
00:20:31.440And you've all experienced it, and perhaps you don't even know it, but you have.
00:20:37.000Now, let's take a moment and think about how is it that we got into this mess in the first place.
00:20:44.920And I'm going to take you back to September 1, 1905.
00:20:48.220there's a reason they said it like that. September 1, 1905. That's when Albert and Saskatchewan were
00:20:55.560incorporated into Canada, right? And that was due to Sir Clifford Sifted. He was the Minister of the
00:21:01.560Interior and the Liberal Government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. But if you want to understand why we are
00:21:06.820where we are at now, think of his words when he was giving a presentation to an audience in Winnipeg
00:21:15.320in 1904, before Alberta and Saskatchewan joined.
00:28:11.800It only takes informing the federal government
00:28:15.200that's what she was going to do but she didn't do it and it doesn't really make sense because
00:28:21.280um we over fund the pension plan by three billion dollars a year so we'd say three billion
00:28:26.240we over find employment insurance by a billion and a half immigration we have no problem with
00:28:32.800immigration except when it's uncontrolled and it is uncontrolled and we are we are being flooded
00:28:41.040with refugees but on the other side on the flip side there are people that really are here for
00:28:47.760the alberta advantage and they are contributing to alberta society so immigration is a two-edged
00:28:54.480sword here there's benefit and potential non-benefit there'll be more discussion by my
00:28:59.120colleagues about this in a few minutes so um and quebec of course has control of immigration
00:29:08.800provincial tax collection and they have their own pension plan which is far more productive
00:29:15.680than the canadian pension plan if people actually only do that and of course taking control of
00:29:22.000provincial tax collection is one thing what we really like to see is control if we're in canada
00:29:28.640we'd like to have the the right to take control of all tax collection it's the golden rule he who
00:29:36.000has the gold rules we already would be in a position then to say to the federal government
00:29:40.320well this is what we're willing to pay for and we're not going to pay for your other virgin
00:29:44.800state signaling stupid causes and that's the sort of thing that we could do but the only way we'd
00:29:52.320ever get there is if we were already a southern country first and then they came back to us to
00:29:58.880rejoin but why would we anyhow i digress there for a second so so now the next thing that um so so
00:30:10.400fundamentally what i was trying to get with respect to these five things is that her strong rhetoric
00:30:17.280is not backed up by actions that it so easily could have been um and i find that extremely
00:30:23.680disappointed so moving on from there as many of you know she's introduced the
00:30:34.180Alberta next panel all right this is sort of similar to the fair deal panel
00:30:40.480that Jason Kenney held when he was in power and if you remember from the fair
00:30:47.980deal panel there were numerous recommendations that were made but Jason
00:30:53.260Kenning decided that he would just take one of them and he would hold a referendum on ending
00:30:58.780equalization. And I just want to make a point about this. The difficulty of opening and changing
00:31:07.160the constitution because the eight things that she has articulated in this Alberta next panel
00:31:15.200all require constitutional change. So I want you to understand how difficult it is to open and
00:31:22.520change the Constitution and we'll use any equalization as an example. How many people
00:31:28.280here voted to end equalization in 2021? Well, quite a number of you. Okay. Do you know why
00:31:34.000nothing happened? Nothing could happen. It was impossible. It was a virgin signaling referendum
00:31:40.600by Jason Kenney. He was trying to appease the Alberta electorate by doing something,
00:31:45.520But he knew that it could not happen. And here's why. Because there are four hurdles plus one if you want to actually change the Constitution. The first hurdle is they have to have seven of ten provincial legislatures, seven of ten provincial legislatures, agreeing to open the Constitution and then end equalization. That's hurdle number one.
00:32:10.520Hurdle number two is at the level of the House of Commons, where we don't have representation by population, but the second hurdle is you need a majority vote in the House of Commons to end equalization.
00:32:24.260Third, where we don't have regional representation, in the Senate, there also has to be a majority vote to end equalization.
00:32:34.620And four, remarkable as it is, that has a de facto veto.
00:32:47.320No, it is zero, but I'd like to say if there's a one in quadrillion chance that you could get through the four kernels and it went to a constitutional litigation, it would be the Supreme Court that decides or that adjudicates that litigation.
00:33:08.600And think about how the justices, the nine justices are appointed, all from the Prime Minister's office, three are from Quebec, three from one area, one in the Maritimes, and two from all Western Canada.
00:37:49.820and so this is the way it can work successful referendum and now the premier has an opportunity
00:38:01.300she can go down the rabbit hole of endless negotiations pursuant to the clarity act
00:38:06.480or she can the day after the votes are counted she can then say to the citizens of alberta
00:38:15.100Having received a call from the U.S. administration, citizens of Alberta, today I announce that Alberta is a sovereign country, and that's it.
00:38:26.720Thank you very much for your attention.
00:38:45.100Thank you, Dr. Mulberry, for all of the work that you've put into this and the hours and the time. It's truly appreciated.
00:38:59.100My next speaker is Mr. Jeffrey Raff. Jeffrey Raff is a constitutional lawyer with 34 years of experience.
00:39:09.100He is a leader in his field and has been pivotal in representing First Nations communities and in constitutional law for our indigenous leaders.
00:39:20.280Jeff is general counsel on the APP board and is a leader and supporter of Alberta independents.
00:54:29.920he's not talking about oil and gas pipeline corridors.
00:54:33.220No, he's talking about high-tension power line corridors where they make up for the line loss and put power generation into the system with small modular nuclear reactors.
00:54:45.280And we're going to have nuclear reactors all over Alberta to feed Mark Carty's dream of a gas-free vehicle Alberta.
00:54:54.920So just think about that for a second.
00:54:57.160We all know what winters are like up here.
00:55:00.180I mean, anybody that owns an electric vehicle, God bless you.
00:55:03.220But, you know, they don't go more than 100 kilometers anywhere in the winter, because not only are your batteries grossly inefficient, but the thing that eats up the most power in an electric vehicle in the winter is the heater that keeps you from freezing to death.
00:55:18.340So that if you're stuck at the side of the road or stuck in a snowdrift, run out of battery power, you will freeze to death in an Alberta winter.
01:01:04.600They have an entire section of their finance department that is aimed every year at cooking their books so that they never become a half province. So all of their hydro revenue and BC and Ontario do this as well. They cheat on their hydro revenue by saying, oh, well, you know, we charge a penny acre foot for the water as it goes over the dam. And that number is making it up. You get the idea, right? So they have a very, they say the water is the natural resource. So they'll say, oh, put on the books. Oh,
01:01:34.600yeah well there's 10 million dollars in water royalty but all of the billions and billions and
01:01:39.720billions of dollars that they make through hydro profits oh well that's in a crown corporation
01:01:44.780that's all exempt from equalization we're poor we're have not provinces please give us more
01:01:51.260of alberta's money i mean that's how this country is set up from start to finish and this is what
01:01:56.760we need to get out of. So now flipping back to the value of freedom. So once we stop sending
01:02:04.960$70 billion a year to Ottawa, and we fully cost Alberta Armed Forces 3% of GDP, which
01:02:12.600is, you know, one point higher than the NATO right now, with a billion and a half dollars
01:02:17.160in startup costs, have a department of external affairs, you know, that's costed, a department
01:02:50.100This document states in year one that we are going to have between a $29 to $48 billion a year fiscal capacity surplus.
01:03:04.640And of course, the hilarious thing about that is that when we drafted this document, and there'll be an updated version probably coming out in the next week or two.
01:03:14.100because as we're asking, we call it a draft fiscal plan
01:03:18.260because there's actually a link in the document
01:05:00.660The other thing to keep in mind is because of the fact that in year one, we are going to have a massive fiscal capacity surplus approaching $65 billion, if we do the $15 billion adjustment that I was just talking about, right?
01:05:17.720the commonwealth of alberta could easily afford to cut pension contribution amounts in half
01:05:26.640and double the amount of pension being paid to alberta seniors which as far as i'm concerned
01:05:32.780is their right for contributing to the development of this product
01:05:35.420All of that will be fully paid for by the Commonwealth of Alberta, and on top of it, even on a worst-case scenario, LifeWorks has estimated that Alberta is owed almost $360 billion by CPP.
01:05:59.540Even if only half of that fund came back,
01:06:02.300and I'll speak to this because this is more his area of expertise,
01:07:55.240The agreement will be less than one page, and you've got to leave room for signatures
01:08:00.020on it, and it is simply going to say there will be no tariffs on any goods and services
01:08:05.640on either side of the Alberta-U.S. border.
01:08:08.480That will be the entire trade agreement of the United States of America, between free and independent Alberta and the United States of America.
01:08:17.520So what I want everybody to take away from this is to please download this document at app.com.
01:08:24.960Please read it, internalize it, and more importantly, share it with all of your friends.
01:08:30.460Anybody that doubts what we're saying, send them a copy of the document.
01:08:34.280We challenge them to challenge the number.
01:08:38.480Because we put this thing together, we had bankers, we had economists, we had actuaries, we had auditors, we had accountants, we had business people, all kinds of people vetting this document and tearing the numbers apart.
01:08:51.960And now, because it's open to public comment, we still have comments coming in literally from everybody in the province, and nobody has been able to attack the foundational numbers in this document.
01:09:08.480The other thing I would like everybody in this room to do
01:09:25.180We're not sure she's read it because she hasn't said a word about it, right?
01:09:29.880And my challenge to them, and this will be my final point,
01:09:33.320and I'd like everybody to internalize.
01:09:35.060I'll throw a little bit of law at you, right?
01:09:37.740Under Canadian law, from a case called Frame v. Smith, right, from the Supreme Court of Canada,
01:09:42.760the standard of a fiduciary in Canadian law is a reasonably prudent person of business managing their own affairs.
01:09:51.800And my challenge for every MLA, every cabinet minister, and our elected premier,
01:09:57.860is once you read this document and understand how much better off Albertans are outside of Canada than in it,
01:10:06.340How are you not breaching your fiduciary obligations to Albertans by not giving them back to this document and taking Alberta the hell out of Canada?
01:10:18.260So with that, I'm going to conclude my remarks, and I'll let you turn the microphone over to my good friend and colleague, Mr. Sylvester, Mitch Sylvester.
01:11:44.000Yeah, okay, so this is the hardest job in the evening.
01:11:48.080It takes money to run this program, and we're going to ask you all to kindly donate if you can to us.
01:11:54.220And we're going to use that money to reach the kids.
01:11:57.580This is what we're going to do with that money.
01:11:59.000Honest to God, we've got to talk to the 18 to 25-year-olds, and it's going to take a lot of money, so if you want to have a salary, we'd appreciate it, and I just want you to understand another thing, my business is on 50th and 50th in Bonnyville, right in the middle of town, so how many times a day do you think I get asked to donate money?
01:12:20.000honest to God three to four times a day on a lot of days every week and here's
01:12:27.920problem most of them are customers so we give a lot of money to all the projects
01:12:35.780every minor hockey tournament everything that goes on so I can't I totally
01:12:41.780have to reach my pocket again so just that's the deal okay so here's what we
01:18:15.940and I worked in between all those times, and coached kids, and played hockey, and had a really fun time, actually, to tell us to cut it through.
01:18:23.940But now I see the abuse. I saw the abuse right off the bat. I saw it early.
01:18:29.940And we were organizing, I was organizing street rallies, and I've organized an event like this every month for three years in Bonneville, myself.
01:18:37.940And with my UCP board now, that helped me out a tremendous amount.
01:18:41.940But this is what I'm seeing. I'm seeing that the UCP, and I'm the UCP Chair, so I'm the Chair for Bonneville College St. Paul's CA, and we have possibly the most engaged CA in the province, and nobody will argue that we weren't at least in the top two or three.
01:18:59.940What we do every year is we send the most people to the annual general meeting of the UCP than any other senior member three years in a row.
01:19:09.940And the reason we do that is because we want to talk to government.
01:19:14.940Because I learned a long time ago when I was organizing rallies that if you're talking to yourself, you're not accomplishing anything.
01:19:23.940You have to talk to power. Because we're talking inside a room and we're talking to like-minded people.
01:19:28.940But if we want to change something, we have to talk to Garland. So I would like you to consider that since it's in Edmonton, and it costs $150 or $169 to attend the AGM, and you're all freedom-thinking people because most of the people in this room are ready to leave Canada, I would like you to be at the AGM to express your, to express the vote for what you believe in.
01:19:52.520because we absolutely have to participate in our democracy if we want
01:19:56.960to win this because they have to be afraid to not put this referendum
01:20:03.240result at the right place so that we can succeed on leaving as they can choose
01:20:09.920not to and if they have no fear of consequence I suggest to you that they
01:20:17.020may not do it so every morning we get up and we think about okay well what's
01:20:21.620going to happen or how are they going to attack us because we totally understand
01:20:24.920they're going to and the other thing we say is that if we do all this work what
01:20:28.400if they don't do anything about it so get involved with your CAs get on CA
01:20:33.680boards and attend the AGM of the party that's in power so that makes this
01:20:38.360non-partisan I don't care which party's in power we have to be there and how we
01:20:43.940fired Jason Kinney was a very simple process I'll just go through that in a
01:20:48.260minute for you. This is what we did. We have 22 CA boards put the identical
01:20:53.440motion to the provincial board and the provincial board declared a special
01:20:59.120general meeting and called the leadership review for Mr. Kenney which he did not win.
01:21:03.760So that's how we got rid of Mr. Kenney. So that can be done but we have to have
01:21:10.900people like you on CA boards that will allow us to all have the same motions
01:21:17.660so that we can call a special general meeting so that if we have an issue then you can call a
01:21:23.420special general meeting on any issue including this one so if the government says we're not going to
01:21:31.020do anything about a winning referendum vote we can hurt them we can get them out of power
01:21:37.980we can change the premier at that point we can change the provincial board
01:21:42.140So, please understand how important that is. It's the only leverage we have, right? It's the only leverage we're going to have. So please participate, please go to the website, please buy a ticket to the AGM, and please attend.
01:22:03.400Alright, we're going to go over the zillion points here.
01:22:09.400We're talking about those people that are running our federal government.
01:22:14.400They had, according to Mr. Platt, in the neighborhood of 80 to 82 ethics violations, which are our crimes.
01:22:21.400And the one thing that's the most important thing that you have to understand, in case you're not convinced,
01:22:28.400is that they were not convicted for any of those crimes.
01:22:32.400So the leader of our country is like a king. He has absolutely no consequences
01:22:40.080to anything that they do. Now if that is actually the case, and it is, is it
01:22:46.160possible for us to change anything? That is the problem right there. The problem
01:22:54.240is is that these people are treated like royalty, they put themselves in that
01:22:58.740position, with their light royalty, they have absolutely no consequences. Whereas
01:23:03.540you and I, if we stole any money, anything close to what they did, we would be put
01:23:08.700in jail. And in order for us to have a republic or have a democracy, anything
01:23:17.520moving forward, we can't have our leaders that are not held accountable for
01:23:22.680anything that they do or everything that they do. So it's up to us to make sure
01:23:28.380that in our new system, after we vote this out, that we don't allow this Westminster system back
01:23:35.660into government. We're going to do this very much the same. It's all about money. They want to take
01:23:45.100all of our money. And before we're done here, you're going to understand that that's actually
01:23:48.580the case. We are a colony. We are being abused by these people. Their attitude is, screw the West,
01:23:56.080we'll take the rest and that pretty much sums it up. Our attitude of course
01:23:59.500conversely in the back was let's let those Eastern bastards face in the dark
01:24:02.500and however we could do that should we choose to do that and that would be
01:24:06.700leverage moving forward right because if we wanted to shut the pipeline because
01:24:10.960like Jeff alluded to their oil comes from Alberta but it goes through the US so we
01:24:16.240can shut that pipeline down at some point it would give us some leverage to get
01:24:20.380whatever we need whatever we thought was required okay so we're going to go
01:24:23.920through these because visuals are sometimes better for some people, so if
01:24:27.100you're going to be talking to other people, you can remember that we only
01:24:30.760have two Supreme Court justices in all of Western Canada. Quebec has three, Ontario
01:24:37.040has three, and Maritimes have one. And all of these Supreme Court justices have to be
01:24:43.440valuable. So where do you think it's going to come from, originally? Okay. The Bertrands have half of our population and 55
01:24:54.660representation. If that was not the case, we would have won the last federal election. So the
01:24:59.940federation is working exactly the way they want it to work. It's not an accident. This is
01:25:06.120absolutely working the way they want it to work. Two of all points, three-quarters of the Senate. The Senate is the
01:25:12.080regular is the group of people that overlook what they do in Parliament if
01:25:17.320they think that it's not reasonable or they want to change it, they can stop that
01:25:20.240legislation from going through, but they're all liberals. And here's the
01:25:26.120distribution. We'll go quickly. The Maritimes have 24 seats. They have 30 seats.
01:25:35.000There you go. And we have six. And we have twice the population. So decide whether
01:25:41.420that's fair or not, but that's the way it's designed. Our next contribution to
01:25:48.320Ottawa is Alberta being abused. Look at the graph. $244 billion, nobody else is
01:25:55.220close. That's the money that they take from Alberta. $46 billion for BC. Ontario, the
01:26:01.080largest economy in Canada, $41 billion. Everybody else is a taker. And Quebec is
01:26:07.660the King of Tickers at the very end. 327 million in that period of time. So when
01:26:15.200you see the visuals, it makes it a lot easier to understand the depth of
01:26:20.680corruption that's happening and how badly they're treating Alberta, right?
01:26:29.580Standard attention, Jeff kind of went through it, so just understand this. We
01:26:34.960contribute nine, we pay nine, and our seniors collect six. The reason we pay
01:26:41.360nine is because we work harder. We work more. So for that very reason we work
01:26:49.060more hours, we make more money, so we contribute more to CPP. Right? Simple.
01:26:54.040Except that debt overage is supposed to go into a fund for us and we should be
01:27:02.260to call that back at any time and had the premier done that two years ago when
01:27:06.820we started down this path when we asked her to do it we would probably have it
01:27:10.000back here by now and we wouldn't have to worry about them using that as a scare
01:27:14.380tactic or leverage for us not to leave Canada. But however as it sits right now
01:27:22.200we over contribute and she hasn't called it back and the LifeWorks report says
01:27:26.920they owe us $380 billion. It's actually $346 billion, plus six, plus three, plus three because it's two years old, plus interest on $346 billion.
01:27:37.920So whatever that is, it's going to be around $400 billion is what they owe us now.
01:27:41.920Okay, so just what could we possibly do with a $400 billion asset?
01:27:49.920Understand that we're in debt, $100 billion here.
01:27:55.840That we're in debt, we have $25, $26 billion
01:30:06.480This is something that's been going on since Thomas Jefferson.
01:30:08.780He said I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies because they control the money.
01:30:15.780Absolutely. And why do people fight worse? Because they covet what the neighbor has and they want to take it from them.
01:30:24.780And if you control the money, then you already have the money, which is what they want.
01:30:30.780So why do they have to control the people when they have all the money that they want?
01:30:36.780And then they just keep pushing it, right, they look further and further and further and they keep pushing it. It's like a game. It's almost like they're daring us to try and say well you really can't do that anymore and Jeff also spoke about the fact that Mr. Carney's assets are not common knowledge and that when you become Prime Minister or any government office you have to declare where your business assets are and how that works.
01:31:02.640It's a crime in Canada, up until now, to have a business that profits from government activity.
01:31:09.200It also was a crime, up until, before 2018, for the press not to tell the truth.
01:31:27.640So what happens when they control the message?
01:31:30.540For us adults that have been critical thinkers for a long enough time that you're actually
01:31:35.340sitting in this room, so you probably understand some of that, you know, you could actually
01:31:39.800sit through the wheat from the chaff, but what about the kids?
01:31:44.760What happens to the children that are given all that information for one place?
01:31:49.220So it's going to make it a lot easier to control them moving forward if they don't have to
01:31:53.440convince them that it could be any better.
01:31:55.140Now, I'm going to share this with you, that's one of the only good things about getting
01:31:58.480old is you have perspective. When I was growing up as a 20 or 21 year old, you could buy a house
01:32:06.320when you left school. And a lot of people that I know did. And back in those days, I know this
01:32:12.960isn't funny, but every year a couple three girls in high school got pregnant and they got married
01:32:19.040and they bought a house. And that was literally the way it was. And it wasn't even unusual. Nobody
01:32:24.320said oh my god look at those kids are my houses what do you think the odds of a kid today could
01:32:28.400buy a house right out of high school and not only that i have friends that did that very same thing
01:32:40.240that are married to this day and he worked and she stayed home and raised the babies
01:32:46.880and that was you know 50 years ago when you could actually buy a house one of the ladies
01:32:53.600could support the family, and the mom would stay home with the kids. And as a consequence they might even have a couple more. So my very good friend Leo, who built a lot of the houses right along the highway here to Shewitt Park, had three kids before he was twenty. And he's still married, happily married to his wife, and you know what? They were empty masters at forty.
01:33:20.600You know, go. You know, they paid at first and then after that it was good. So what I'm saying to you though is this. That's how much things have changed. And it's normalized, it's been normalized, but I'm going to tell you that shouldn't be the way it is and we can make it a lot better.
01:33:39.600That's what we're trying to talk about.
01:33:44.600So what's at stake, what's at stake is the richest piece of real estate in the world, bar none.
01:33:50.600And we have to be naive to believe that the rest of the world doesn't cut what we have here in Alberta.
01:33:58.600And I mean, we're going to go through this in a minute, like step by step, and understand that,
01:34:03.600but what we have here is basically unique in the world.
01:34:07.600And they want it, because there's lots of places in the world that don't have resources, like us, and we don't have to go far. Europe, China. Two powers, major powers. And they want what we have here. And I'm going to show you that they're actually taking it already.
01:34:21.720yeah yeah yeah when i became premier i thought i would fix everything in six or seven months
01:34:28.200at that level what does that mean but everything is broken so the premium albera says she can't
01:34:35.080fix anything so what that means to me is that's how corrupt it is that's all it means because if
01:34:41.960she cannot fix it where she's sitting way up there what's the problem the problem is that your
01:34:48.600are running the whole thing. That's the problem. So that is the deep state by
01:34:55.600extension. No matter how you slice that, that's a deep state. The deep state is all
01:35:00.060those people out there that are calling the shots. There's no fixing that. The
01:35:06.240system is broken. Pollyoff said the same thing. Canada's broken. Trump said the
01:35:11.460same thing. Like a Marine and me did say that the whole system is completely
01:35:14.840broken. So in order for her to fix that system, we have to get out of it and literally reboot it, change it off.
01:35:30.840COVID restrictions, we're all about political power and control. I learned into the fact that they're pushing us and pushing us and pushing us.
01:35:36.840They wanted to see how far they could push us. In COVID, they pushed us a long ways.
01:35:40.840Right, they pushed us a long way. The God is here though, I'm not gonna lie to you, COVID woke me up and woke a lot of other people up, but that's what the God is here.
01:35:52.840Dennis is talking about the I'm contact and C-11. So these are things that in my father's time and in my earlier, my young adult life, were stuff that we would have never put up with.
01:36:04.840Where's the reach? Where's the outrage? How can we allow this? And we're doing it openly.
01:36:13.840We're doing it right in front of us. And they don't. You ever see the Liberals Action
01:36:19.840Question in the last 10 years? How'd that work? C-293. Now here's what they're doing.
01:36:26.840They're making laws so that in the future they can commit more crimes.
01:36:31.840Now if you think that sounds out there, C-293 says, in the next emergency the
01:36:38.020federal government will be able to seize your land and your herd. How does that
01:36:45.700work? And what's the purpose of it? The purpose of it is, like Dennis said, hollow
01:36:51.700out the middle class to make you poorer and then richer. And, I don't know if
01:36:57.760if you're aware, but the cost of fertilizers doubled,
01:37:04.120A lot of these big producers are on the thin line.
01:37:09.120I have a friend that farmed a lot of acres last year,
01:37:12.400came to the store, he made $12,000 last year,
01:37:14.880and he has millions and millions of dollars worth of equipment
01:37:17.480and he farmed that an only quarter's length,
01:37:19.84030 or 40 quarters length, so just saying.
01:37:24.040China hits Canada with retaliatory tariffs
01:37:26.320canola oil and peas after we imposed a tariff our federal government imposed a tariff on electrical
01:37:33.760chinese cars that nobody can advise and they totally understand that that's the consequence of
01:37:40.240it again to attack our producers danielle said that they're literally sabotaging our industry
01:37:50.080that comes from her they're sabotaging industry now as canadian as a business person
01:37:59.760i would actually ever see the day where the federal government would try to sabotage our
01:38:05.120own people in our own industry it's those people in 2015 this started let's understand this we're
01:38:14.160dealing with a group of very bad people and they're not going away on their own
01:38:21.200and even if we win our referendum we're still going to have a fight on our hands
01:38:27.040but we have to win the referendum or we don't even have to worry about the fight. We're going to
01:38:32.400capitulate to that nonsense. Well I was in higher demand every year. These are the bills that affect
01:38:38.640to Alberta. Again, unfair. Nowhere else in Canada do they try to post off an
01:38:46.060industry based on policies. Blocking pipelines, tanker bans, in the West, but in the East they bring in half a million
01:38:52.700barrels a day if they're boiled. Right? I understand that. This money that's lost, what it does is it doesn't allow you to have a good year and another good year and another good year so that you can
01:39:06.680put up with a bad year or two. So once that money's lost, and that money's invested
01:39:11.180everywhere else in the world, it's not like it's not been invested.
01:39:18.440Japan, Greece, and Germany came to Alberta with their hat in hand and asked if we
01:39:26.480wouldn't sell them natural gas. And we said no. So how many jobs did we lose?
01:39:34.300tens of thousands of us, trillions of dollars in turnover and assets and
01:39:40.620something that would have paid us for 40 or 50 years. And they said no it's not in
01:39:46.420our business plan. Meaning that they didn't want to develop our industry, they want to keep it in the ground.
01:40:59.180Right? Just understand how much money that is, you know, so according to that math, we should have double that in an online fund.
01:41:11.180If we had 1.3 trillion dollars in an online fund, we wouldn't have to pay any number of them.
01:41:18.180If we had twice that much, well, go figure. So that's how bad this actually is. That's how much they're taking from us, right there.
01:41:29.180And they want to cap production, which is going to cost us 40,000 jobs, which is going to create a recession, which they said is going to happen.
01:41:37.400And news out yesterday, 80% of Canadians are living paycheck to paycheck.
01:42:10.980and Jeff alluded to the fact that they live in abject poverty so that's not the
01:42:16.460answer right just saying all right carbon tax this is a lie this is a big
01:42:25.600lie let's just call it for what it is okay carbon taxes cost Canadians billions of
01:42:31.080dollars over five years hurting the economy or reducing CO2 emissions by
01:42:34.14011.9 gigatons. China emits 11.9 gigatons every day and a half. Five years of restraint, five
01:42:42.780years of killing Alberta industry, five years of doing all of that and China
01:42:47.580produces all that in a day and a half. And climate change, all the fires that you see.
01:42:56.220The Americans actually sent a letter from the government of Canada telling us to quit setting
01:43:00.300fires so they could breathe. I just saw yesterday because all the smokes in here. So 100 out of 111 fires are caused by human people, by humans in Manitoba.
01:43:11.300Alright, here's all the taxes we pay. This is the taxes that we're going to lose if we become an independent nation.
01:43:17.300Okay, just understand this. Carbon tax, personal loan tax, corporate tax, goods and services tax, excise tax, fuel excise tax, all excise duty,
01:46:59.240And this is the other thing that they do when they want to control you. They take your firearms away.
01:47:05.240Except Doug Ford that his house broken into. Now he wants to be allowed to shoot criminals who went into his house.
01:47:12.240He said it's a good idea to have a gun.
01:47:17.240However, from all political power comes to the barrel of a gun.
01:47:20.240The Communist Party must command all the guns, that way no guns can ever be used to command the party.
01:47:25.240And that is the reason why they won't take your guns.
01:47:29.240The average Canadian gun owner is four times less likely to murder somebody than the average Canadian citizen.
01:47:36.240So that being said, they're not taking your guns away to keep you safe.
01:47:41.240If the government says it's for your own good, I can trust you. Trust me, it is not for your own good. It's just exactly the opposite. If they say it's for your own good, run and hide. Because if that's what they did, you know, COVID vaccination, all the rest of that kind of stuff, if it's for your own good, do it.
01:48:01.000A well-ledling coalition being necessary to the secure new or free state, the rent of the people who can bear arms shall not be infringed. Hopefully, that's what a new Alberta gun laws are going to look like. Thank you.
01:48:11.240so yeah a couple sentences on immigration
01:48:21.560they're bringing people here to change our politics yeah that's what they're doing
01:48:28.440i'm okay with immigration i'm okay with controlled immigration i'm not okay with
01:48:33.080uncontrolled immigration and i'm not okay with immigration that brings people through here so
01:48:38.360so that they can change our politics and that we can never win another election.
01:48:46.360Did you notice we got tariffs? 35% by the Americans today? Yesterday? Do you know why?
01:48:52.360Because we're the biggest producer of fentanyl and illegal fentanyl in the world.
01:48:57.360In Valley View they found 6,700 kilograms, kilograms of fentanyl making material in a lab there.
01:49:05.360How much fentanyl do you think you can make with, what is that, 7-tonne chemical?
01:49:11.360And fentanyl was like the size of a grain of salt, right?
01:49:18.360He said in that thing, and I read the declaration today, that you've got to stop that fentanyl or we're going to tax you more.
01:49:25.360And anything that you counter-tariff us, we're going to add to the top of our tariff.
01:49:31.360So they're not playing around with that, they're going to stop that.
01:49:34.360we inspect one percent of the C-cams that come over from China and that
01:49:40.600fentanyl stuff comes over from China. So just so you know. And that's about the
01:49:46.660refugees. The refugees, if there's five million work visas that are going to expire in
01:49:52.600Canada this year and they've self-admitted that they don't know where
01:49:56.360these people are. And if they apply for refugee status they're entitled to up to
01:50:01.760$83,000 a year in compensation from our government with no tax. The average
01:50:09.320Canadian earns $63,000 to pay 20% tax on that. So tell me how much sense does that make?
01:50:15.560The reason they're doing that is to make a change of power politics.
01:50:21.760I'm glad I'm going to leave you. I want to see you at the AGM. I will be there.
01:50:31.760All right, we're going to have a Q&A now, and if anybody has any questions, come on up.
01:50:45.160Rich, thank you for your dedication to the people of this community.
01:51:01.760People that want to ask questions, if you can line up here and come to the front.
01:51:07.480Could you try and keep it concise, because we want to get to as many as we can.
01:51:19.920I'm curious about the development of data management centers and carbon capture facilities.
01:51:27.820Currently it appears Daniel Smith supports the development of these.
01:51:33.820I'm curious to know where you stand on these issues and what you think of Daniel's supporting them.
01:51:41.820Okay, well I'm totally against carbon capture.
01:51:44.820Jeff is totally against carbon capture. I could speak for him for the one time that I've had the opportunity to do that.
01:51:49.820So carbon capture is a joke. I've talked to Synovus. I've had meetings with Synovus.
01:51:55.820is coming to Bonnyville where I live and they wanted my support on it and I really laughed at them.
01:52:00.540I said, come on. We're going to suck CO2 out of the air and we're going to stick it in the ground
01:52:06.440and we're going to be able to measure that. Can we measure that? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
01:52:10.900We ought to start laughing at this kind of stuff just so they understand that we understand how stupid it is.
01:52:19.040And as far as AI and producing that, you know what? I know the answer to that.
01:52:23.840I don't know what they're going to do with that. As far as I'm personally concerned, stick that on top of the gas well and do all that if we can do that.
01:52:32.400I mean, they have a tremendous amount of power, and so they're going to do that.
01:52:37.060I don't know what Danielle's position is on that, but I haven't studied it, and I don't care. Dennis, maybe.
01:52:42.060to attempt at, you know, being one of the leaders of the development of information.
01:52:53.740You know, I support that, but there's going to be an increased electrical requirement for that, that's for sure.
01:53:00.300I want to digress for one second. I want to give a shout out to Michael Wagner in the back at the table.
01:53:05.800Many of you will probably know who he is.
01:53:09.800Michael has a PhD in political science.
01:53:13.800He actually has three degrees. The last one's a PhD. He's written several
01:53:17.800books and I really encourage you to buy at least
01:53:21.800one or two or maybe all five of them because he absolutely
01:53:25.800has explained brilliantly what has happened to
01:53:29.800Alberta within the entire Confederate structure.
01:53:35.800and before i forget one more thing that i think is very important don't talk separation is like
01:53:45.080getting your leg amputated right talk about sovereignty independence yeah that's the
01:53:50.760separation is a negative sovereignty or albert independence is a positive
01:53:55.880Hi, I didn't, I actually said I've been boning for six years, and I felt it just so quite
01:54:59.720And I mean, but, you're going to have to understand that that's not an option that, you know, right now I prefer.
01:55:05.720I would prefer that she work with us and help us get this over the finish line.
01:55:08.720That would be my preference. Because, you know what, we had an SGM and people are afraid to do that again and again and again.
01:55:16.720People just want to flip leaders out. Because we're seeing that it's not about the leaders, it's about us.
01:55:22.720And we can't depend on them to do the stuff, so let's go to the AGM, put her feet to the fire, and force her to get in front of us.
01:55:29.720Excuse me, the Conservatives will be leading independent, sovereign Canada?
01:55:38.720Well, you know what, back in ancient Greece, they changed their leaders every year. I really like that.
01:55:46.720Honest to God, I really like that. I would like us to change our leaders every year.
01:55:50.720Because the reason they changed their leaders every year is because they were afraid of tyranny.
01:55:55.720And back in those days, the tyrant and, you know, they would be going to war, and there was real serious consequences to that, so they thought it would be prudent to not go to war as much and just change their leaders. So, I would like that. And I'd like the direct democracy system from Switzer and Jeff Hoek, Scott, and they would like that.
01:56:12.760No, my view on it has always been that politicians are like, socks or underwear, you should change them as quickly and often as possible. So, thank you for the question.
01:56:25.720How much do we expect to pay for the parks and the army bases in Alberta?
01:56:33.720We don't expect to pay anything for them. The simple fact of the matter is that Alberta has contributed over $800 billion to Canada equalization.
01:56:42.720And if you actually took an actuarial accounting of that and applied compound interest to it for all the years that we've been paying,
01:56:50.720We're owed several trillion dollars by Ottawa and the rest of Canada, so our position is the national parks will be the national parks of the Commonwealth of Alberta, and the military bases will take them over, and they'll now become the bases of the sovereign country of Alberta.
01:57:08.720thank you before you go before you go there's one other thing to this gentleman's question
01:57:20.30060% of Alberta lands are crown lands but 81% of the crown lands are controlled by the provincial
01:57:27.780government it's only 19% that are controlled by the federal government
01:57:30.940Thank you to everyone involved with APP. So a lot of people are possibly wondering what's going to happen with healthcare in Alberta. Personally, I think it's broken, and I certainly hope that there would be a different system and a better system, and that the College of Physicians and Surgeons would possibly no longer exist since there have been so many.
01:57:56.940Absolutely. I'm going to turn this over to Dennis to talk about the system generally, but I don't know if any of you are aware of this.
01:58:05.500During COVID, I was very busy litigating against the government of Alberta, suing them on behalf of doctors that they were firing in the middle of a health crisis because they were too smart to get vaccinated, you know, and others.
01:58:18.180and one of the things that happened to me was jokingly one day i was on a zoom call with a
01:58:22.900bunch of ahs lawyers and of course they're all making the big show of taking their covid masks
01:58:28.620off because they've got a virtue signal to everybody of course i walked into our zoom room
01:58:32.500in my office without a mask on and i said just jokingly i said oh in case anybody's wondering
01:58:36.300why i'm not wearing a mask i'm exempt and of course i'm not exempt from stupidity exempt from
01:58:41.580virtue signaling exempt from all the other bullshit we had to put up with during covid
01:58:45.740The very next day, so those lawyers from AHS went to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, they sent a raid team to my doctor's office, raided my doctor's office, and the first medical file they went to was yours truly's, right?
01:59:02.220To see whether my doctor had actually written me a COVID mask exemption so they could take his medical license away, okay?
01:59:10.640That's how corrupt the College of Physicians and Surgeons is.
01:59:13.700And of course, over the course of COVID, I wrote the College of Physicians and Surgeons numerous times saying, wait a minute, all of you seem to think it's important to interfere with the ability of doctors to give patients advice with regard to the safety of the COVID vaccines, whether or not they should or shouldn't wear masks.
01:59:32.800I mean, my view was I drafted a form of COVID vaccine exemption that simply said, I, Dr. So-and-so, have fully advised patient acts of the benefits and reasons, you know, for taking the vaccine or not taking the vaccine.
01:59:47.580They have made their own decision not to take it.
01:59:50.320So on the basis of the medical doctrine of informed consent, this patient is exempt from having to take a COVID vaccine, period.
01:59:59.080That was my idea of a COVID medical exemption, and of course the College of Physicians and Surgeons were literally threatening any doctor that suggested that that form of exemption was appropriate with a loss of their licenses.
02:00:12.180So as far as I'm concerned, the College of Physicians is completely corrupt.
02:00:15.880They've actually fired, and I know this from whistleblowers that contacted my office, during COVID, any employee in the College of Physicians and Surgeons that wouldn't get vaccinated were fired for cause, but so they wouldn't make a fuss about it in the papers.
02:00:34.580They were paid double severance, right, to get rid of them because their values did not align with the values of the college, right?
02:00:42.160Those people are completely corrupt, and I'm concerned they need to be running out of town on a rail.
02:04:58.560So because she did that, we're in a process,
02:05:01.320we could have a referendum for independence.
02:05:04.640I'm not saying we couldn't have done it at 600,000,
02:05:07.320but it would have been a heck of a lot more work.
02:05:10.020But the other side to that is, as CEO of ADP, I would have been very happy to try and make sure that we got 600,000
02:05:18.520because it's halfway to 1.2 million, which is probably what we would need to win.
02:05:22.520So we wouldn't have had to do that work, but we would only have to do it once.
02:05:25.520So, you know, but I mean, as it stands right now, the referendum for independence is an absolute reality based on that.
02:05:32.520So, as far as that's concerned, she helped. And then two days later, she's got a red shirt on and red toenails, and she says,
02:05:41.960I'm Team Canada right from the top from my red shirt down to my toenails, and so we're going to work with an independent Alberta within Canada.
02:05:50.000So, you read her if you can. I just think, as far as I'm concerned, she's going to wait to see what's going to happen, and then she'll get in front of her family together.
02:05:59.520Yeah, apparently she has four months left of her courtship with Mark Carney before she's going to have to decide to pull the plug or not.
02:06:08.240But everybody needs to understand that, you know, it's a very, you know, and I think your question sort of encapsulates that.
02:06:15.900You know, it's a very schizophrenic, you know, approach that she's taken.
02:06:20.240And they say, oh yeah, I see these people that support independence, these are loyal Albertans, blah, blah, blah.
02:06:25.580But every time you turn around, she does something to try to undermine what we're doing, like these what's next panels and then having all these stupid questions on policing, whatever it is. She had the legislative authority and power to do that the day she was elected. But instead, she wants to talk, talk, talk about this stuff and then put it on a referendum to compete with our referendum question.
02:06:45.440She now wants to have a bunch of constitutional questions on the referendum ballot, which completely undermines our question as a clear standalone question under the Clarity Act.
02:06:55.900So that's why we're talking about having a special general meeting of the UCP or an SGM to clarify the fact that the question of independence, do you agree that Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada, needs to be a stand-alone question and a stand-alone referendum.
02:07:15.540And everybody in this room, you need to write your MLA's, email your MLA's, email Danielle Smith, and tell her that that's what we expect.
02:10:13.040So, if we're leaving Canada, then we will.
02:10:18.340Our currency, is it going to be Canadian currency or American currency?
02:10:22.400We see initially that we're going to be trading in U.S. dollars because the future for Alberta we see is...
02:10:28.400But we do see the benefit of creating an Alberta dollar, but we're anti-fiat currency, so the Alberta dollar will be backed by hard commodities, including gold, bitcoin, and oil.
02:10:48.320So, if I was you, and three days before the referendum, I would buy U.S. dollars.
02:10:58.400So we don't have to listen to complain about the drop of the Canadian currency if we win.
02:11:09.420So I would suggest that everybody do that.
02:11:14.980So I'd like to comment on this as well.
02:11:17.400And I don't know if this will happen, but when Jeff and I were in Washington,
02:11:20.840One of the proposals that we made to help facilitate Albertans supporting the referendum on sovereignty, would the U.S. commit to allowing Alberta citizens to convert their Canadian dollar at the bank for one U.S. dollar?
02:11:38.560Now, this was a negotiating point, so don't hang your hat on it. We don't know if they'll do it. But if you don't ask, you never know.
02:11:49.400And it's going to be dollar for dollar.
02:11:52.960But, you know, whether it is or not, I mean, the tax benefits of an independent Alberta are clearly spelled out in this document, the value of freedom.
02:12:00.560You'd be looking at a 33 to 50 percent overall tax reduction in year one.
02:12:05.580And by year five, we would be a zero income tax jurisdiction.
02:14:09.620My question is about the Criminal Code of Canada. So are we going to adopt that same code? Are we going to be changing it?
02:14:17.620We have an interim constitution that we're working on. Obviously there's going to be transitional provisions, right?
02:14:23.620So we can't all of a sudden on day one of independence have complete anarchy and have no criminal law in Alberta.
02:14:29.620So, you know, the criminal code of Canada would exist, you know, until section by section, the sections that make no sense are repealed by a new Alberta government.
02:14:45.540Alright, so I thought because Dennis, you were a physician, right? You were a doctor?
02:14:50.280Okay, and we're talking about healthcare reforms.
02:14:52.920The big issue to me is the euthanasia issue.
02:14:55.000I don't know if a lot of people know, but Carney and Trudeau put together a committee
02:14:59.420two years ago that's considering legislation to start euthanizing minors, aged 1 to 17,
02:15:32.820there should be a MAID brochure sitting on the bunk in the prison cell.
02:15:38.080For me, that's probably the only good place for it,
02:15:41.320but I don't know if Dennis wants to comment on that or not.
02:15:44.760Yeah, I think it's amoral, you know, what's been happening with MAID.
02:15:49.680I mean, in Canada, we have the highest extinction rate in the world per capita of any other country.
02:16:00.240I mean, I just think it's uncomfortable.
02:16:03.160I spent my life trying to keep people alive and to see this occur like this.
02:16:09.640And really, just because you're depressed, you could request MAID, and there it is.
02:16:15.340Vets who may be having a little bit of difficulty are offered me without being offered care.
02:16:22.340You know, this is something, this is part of what I was saying earlier,
02:16:28.280that, you know, these sorts of values are being shoved down our throat,
02:16:33.500and we don't ascribe to them, and we need to get out from under it.
02:16:37.160I'm not sure we can change the rest of the country,
02:16:40.440but we can sure as heck change what's happening here in Alberta.
02:16:45.340So I am aware that Canada gives more organs per capita to the organization and selling organs in any other country in the world because of our main program. So just understand that that's a big part of the program. We're killing people for profit. So just up my head. So am I against it? That's the answer.
02:17:08.340Thank you for the question. Very good question. Thank you.
02:17:12.340Okay, day one. Alberta's summary. What does the legal path look like to get a pipeline to title?
02:17:23.340Well, one of the great things is that we'll have multiple options. Alberta will certainly have a lot more leverage than we currently have now.
02:17:31.340You know, one of the things I'll talk about, if you've heard of non-tariff trade barriers, a really good non-tariff trade barrier, BC doesn't want to give us a pipeline through British Columbia, would be to say, well, you know, Alberta's really proud of its rat-free status, right?
02:17:45.360So every train coming out of Vancouver is going to have to stop at the Alberta border to be inspected for two weeks for rats coming from Vancouver.
02:17:54.180And while we're inspecting the train for Vancouver rats, we would then have our customs inspectors go on board
02:18:00.640and value all the goods being shipped to Ontario and put a 30% through there up on all the goods on the train.
02:18:07.700And I think you'd find British Columbia's attitude towards an Alberta pipeline with tidewater improving substantially.
02:18:15.360with that new leverage the other thing is of course one of the big bars to pipelines into
02:18:20.320the united states of course is our federal government remember you know we had the you
02:18:24.480know the gibbering shibo was you know basically the minister in charge of pipelines during the
02:18:28.480last government and of course he wasn't going to be approving uh any u.s pipelines you know we're
02:18:34.120very confident around the basis of our meetings in washington dc that an independent alberta
02:18:38.860could immediately have two or three new pipelines into the U.S. out of Alberta,
02:18:44.380including a pipeline into Montana, through Idaho, Washington State,
02:18:49.560and to the port of Seattle to get oil out that way to Tidewater if we needed to.
02:18:54.940The other thing that people forget about, and for whatever reason it's not on Daniel's list,
02:18:59.600and again, it's another crooked, carny Brookfield corruption scandal,
02:19:03.140but does anybody here know that during Trudeau's last couple years in office,
02:19:06.740With a stroke of a pen, he changed the railway tanker car specifications, right?
02:19:13.160And what that did was it meant that 90% of North American rolling stock on the rails
02:19:19.540that was capable of transporting Alberta oil to Texas
02:19:22.220was no longer legally allowed to cross the U.S.-Canadian border
02:19:26.580because it didn't meet the new Trudeau specification
02:19:29.000that was obviously given to him by Mark Carney.
02:19:31.780And, of course, the reason for that is there's only one company in North America
02:22:16.360I mean, we're doing all of these townhouses.
02:22:18.300we're trying to increase online presence, you know, both through, we have a planned social
02:22:24.840media campaign coming forward that we're going to be paying for social media advertising,
02:22:28.960Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, you know, et cetera, et cetera. We're planning
02:22:33.580a blitz going forward. And then on top of it, you know, our work, you know, keep in
02:22:38.520mind, this is a 12-month fight. So it's a marathon, it's not a sprint, right? So, you
02:22:44.660we've now started with the value of freedom and rolling out the fully costed business plan for an
02:22:49.160independent Alberta. I had one tweet actually the other day that I put out or posted on Hacks
02:22:53.740where I was telling Danielle that it's time for her to comment on it. It got over 369,000 views,
02:23:00.800right? You know, thank you to the APP site. So I mean, the word is getting out. But then the next
02:23:06.520plan is, and I was glad to see Scott Payne here is one of our black hats and there you are. Scott
02:23:12.180was involved in leading your group, putting together a draft interim constitution for
02:23:17.400the province of Alberta that we're working on. So three weeks from now, after people
02:23:21.320are tired about hearing how wealthy we're going to be and how much money we're going
02:23:24.960to have when we're independent, then we're going to release the draft interim constitution
02:23:30.000and then we're going to be running around the province saying, not only are we going
02:23:33.540to be really wealthy, but here's the constitution and look how free we're going to be, right?
02:23:42.180And just to add to what Jeff said, some things that are going to happen as well, when we're going through that petition, period, that's going to get tremendous publicity as well, because people are going to be wondering, well, can they pull off the petition? That should be very easy for us to do.
02:24:01.900But already something has happened that's never happened before with concerns that Albertans have had in terms of wanting to leave Canada. So for the first time, we have tremendous international recognition as well. All three of us have done media interviews with CNN, BBC, Germany, Japan.
02:24:28.260Yeah, and many of these media companies have been at our events as well, which is really interesting.
02:24:52.320So, I'm just telling you, this is going to be a big fight.
02:24:55.820somebody told me today that the okay so we have to fight back and if we're going to fight back so
02:25:02.860we got quarter million people that you know that are signed up in our pledges if everybody gave us
02:25:09.620$40 that would fund the whole thing. Everybody doesn't have to give us money but the thing of it is is that the reality of it is this isn't going to be free.
02:25:22.040It's going to be people are going to have to give money, people are going to have to give time, people are going to have to commit, people are going to have to work hard, because we're going to work hard every day for you, and we're coming to all these ways to free, so I'm just saying that we're committed, so we need everybody else to have the same attitude and commit just as hard as we are, and then we'll win.
02:27:01.560And second, this might be a little controversial, but Canada, Alberta, the United States was all funded under, or founded under the supremacy of God.
02:27:54.200so the cities can't basically override rural, you know, et cetera.
02:27:59.220You know, we're also looking at having, you know, like, we have two senators per region, two senators per treaty area, so the indigenous people are represented within the Constitution on the basis of treaty area.
02:28:10.180You know, we're going to have an elected executive, but more importantly, and these are some of the things that I'm really, really looking forward to, we're not going to have an attorney general that's a member of the cabinet.
02:28:20.700We're going to have an elected attorney general who is tasked with throwing crooked politicians in jail, right?
02:28:27.720And we're going to have an elected auditor general.
02:28:29.900We're going to have, you know, all types of positions that serve as watchdogs are going to be outside of cabinet,
02:28:35.200and they're going to be elected positions responsible to the people,
02:28:38.820and that we can have any one of them stand re-election if we think they're not doing their jobs properly on as few as 50,000 signatures, right?
02:28:46.820So it's going to be a true representative democracy, and, you know, we're going to fix, you know, loosely follow the American model, but we're going to fix a lot of the problems that we've seen in the U.S. model.
02:28:59.080Like, you know, as an example, the chief executive would have a line item veto, so that you can't have pork barrel budgets going over, people are stuffing budgets full of crap on behalf of their friends, you know, things like that.
02:29:10.620So anyway, we're working on it, it's still a work in progress, and keep your eyes open, it should be out in the room.
02:29:16.820So just understand what we told you. So just understand what the opposition is here now.
02:29:25.820Her job is going to be extinct. And every politician in Alberta's job is going to be extinct for change.
02:29:31.820So just understand the dynamic there between us and them and the possible reluctance to get in front of us.
02:29:40.820I'm just saying that there's a self-preservation road over there as well because everything is going to change and it has to. I'm not saying that it shouldn't but let's understand what's going on from their perspective.
02:29:53.740you guys went down to the states and had your delegation and talked to them you know they
02:30:01.740recognize us as a song what if um you know all the flip-flopping that goes on we see daily weekly
02:30:09.500monthly between a lot of world leaders what if they say okay yeah you guys are good to go and
02:30:15.420then we do our part and then all of a sudden oh something happens we change our mind and then
02:30:20.860this and everybody kind of boycotts us and puts us in a box and is there a strategy kind of around
02:30:25.980that where all the leaders kind of don't recognize us and we're kind of well i mean we're very
02:30:31.660confident for us recognition on a going forward basis but again you know we're doing this on the
02:30:37.260basis that we have a clear path to follow under canadian law and that's specifically the clarity
02:30:42.300act and the secession reference which clearly identified in paragraphs 154 and 155 a path for