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00:00:00.000 We're going to stop them in the locker room.

00:00:13.000 We're going to stop them in the locker room.

00:00:17.000 The Open Prosperity Project is a non-partisan, not-for-profit, educational society.

00:00:34.240 Our mission is to educate, inspire, and advocate for all efforts about the benefits of freedom and prosperity through independence.

00:00:43.860 This movement began in May 2021 in a humble oil field shop in Miskew, Alberta, where a

00:00:51.860 group of Albertans, tired of the inefficiencies of our potential leadership and the overreach

00:00:58.860 of Ottawa, they thought it was time to act.

00:01:02.860 I believe humble beginnings in Alberta's conspiracy project was born, and here we go

00:01:08.860 states and at this time i'm going to ask caleb gilford to come and do a prayer for us before

00:01:15.820 we begin our presentation i'm just so honored to have this amazing young manager with two

00:01:23.500 assets in this organization good evening guys if you would just bow your heads with me

00:01:29.820 our lord and only father we thank you for this evening we want to thank you for this great

00:01:33.020 province of alberta and that the prosperity that you have granted us so thus forms we pray for a

00:01:38.220 overflow of blessing upon this evening that you would bless each and every speaker you would

00:01:42.060 bless their lips you would fill this room with love that this would not be a movement built off

00:01:45.900 of negative energy off of anti-off auto off anti-canada but on the pro-alberta pro you pro

00:01:51.980 your principles the fact we gain our rights and our freedoms from you and so we pray now knowing

00:01:56.700 that we have hope we have faith we have love for a prosperous future we have a future that we can

00:02:01.820 hope into you and so we thank you all of these things right now in the name of the father and

00:02:06.460 of the son and of the holy spirit so ladies and gentlemen we're just going to show a um

00:02:27.420 roughly four and a half minute video i just want to make a couple comments we had no idea that

00:02:32.380 this video was being prepared um but we were quite thrilled to find that it had been prepared and

00:02:40.140 it's specifically for alberta it was created by jim ferguson and the singer how's the sound

00:02:46.060 everyone can you guys let me know how the sound is it's from scotten and he started

00:02:50.700 called Freedom Train International, and it's galvanizing the freedom forces from around the

00:02:58.360 world, and he makes a very poignant comment that you probably will be able to hear. He does have

00:03:04.920 this Scottish accent, so sometimes it's a little bit hard to hear, that the freedom movement around

00:03:10.560 the world is looking at what we're doing, praying for us, and hoping that we will be successful as

00:03:17.320 an example for what other freedom movements around the world can achieve so enjoy it thank you

00:03:23.240 well hi there this is john turnison thank you change national and i have a gift for the people

00:03:30.120 of oberta we stand in the king of that we stand with all the operators in that quest

00:03:35.880 for independence and sovereignty we hope you like it i want you to know the pages all around the

00:03:41.800 the world, I want you to go back to the right time. We stand with you. I hope you enjoy this.

00:03:48.120 Just remember, we can't kill a man. We can't drive a plane. We can't burn a spirit. We'll

00:03:55.280 be chained. We'll speak soon. I love this song.

00:04:11.800 Shout out to Montana. Shout out to Wisconsin.

00:04:26.440 Yeah, he's got it on replay.

00:04:32.360 I like it. It sounds pretty good.

00:04:41.800 ain't ready to kneel just yet. They chose their kids, but we don't answer to Iowa yet.

00:04:54.800 Your crowd gave us what we learned, just death and fire lessons learned.

00:05:03.800 The ground it shakes, the steel it clones, and a bird of hawks alone.

00:05:11.280 We rise on the steel through fire through frost.

00:05:17.900 We ain't the last where the line lay lost.

00:05:22.600 Albert Stance never on its knees.

00:05:27.200 A name born in the forge of the free.

00:05:33.800 From the rigs to the rails, the cross to the code, we lit their streets, we bore their load.

00:05:48.400 They laughed at pride, they mocked the West, but freedom don't die, just wait for the test.

00:05:57.440 The cowboys ride, the farmers rise, five million strong under open skies.

00:06:06.740 No leash, no lie, no foreign throne, this land is steel and stands alone.

00:06:17.180 We ride sovereign steel through fire through frost.

00:06:22.960 We ain't the last, we're the life they lost

00:06:27.580 Albert stands ever on its knees

00:06:32.500 A nation born in the forge of the free

00:06:52.960 He can't kill the mountain, can't drown the plane, can't burn the spirit that won't be chained.

00:07:03.520 He stares down east with a calloused hand and says, it's time we draw the line in the land.

00:07:13.380 We rise of earth, still through fire, through frost

00:07:21.940 We eat the last, we're the light of the ghost

00:07:26.640 Our birth stands, never on its knees

00:07:31.240 A nation born in the forge of the free

00:07:43.380 it's a good song it's a good message guys so you know sounds pretty good

00:07:53.340 I would now like to introduce our first speaker, Dr. Dennis Modry.

00:08:15.580 dr mudry is a cardiac surgeon and crucial critical specialist who started and directed

00:08:22.060 western canada's first heart and lung transplantation program during his 32 years

00:08:28.060 of practice he also served on the finance committee of successful provincial hey larry

00:08:36.540 he is a founding member and chair of the alberta prosperity project

00:08:41.500 he is a fiscal conservative and student of the canadian constitution he's here to speak to us

00:08:49.100 on the benefits of provincial sovereignty please welcome dr moseley shout out to you larry

00:09:01.900 well thank you lily and well shout out to nick the plumber thank you so much everyone for coming

00:09:13.240 it's wonderful to see so many people here um before i begin though what i'd like to do is

00:09:19.080 give a shout out to our many volunteers because without them we would never be able to put on

00:09:24.560 for example 33 events just like this in the last six weeks so please go

00:09:29.320 So, how many people are here for the first time, the first time they've attended an Alberta

00:09:44.760 Prosperity Project event?

00:09:46.540 Please raise your hand.

00:09:48.540 Wow, that's great.

00:09:50.540 A lot of first-timers, people.

00:09:52.200 A lot of first-timers.

00:09:53.200 How many have been to an APP event, people?

00:09:58.200 Okay, it's about 50-50 tonight, is the way I look at it.

00:10:02.240 All 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.

00:10:11.160 So I want to start out with George Bush Sr., okay, the former president of the United States.

00:10:17.700 And he famously said that he ate broccoli.

00:10:22.040 When he was a kid, his mother forced him to eat broccoli. Now that he's the president

00:10:28.040 of the United States, he says, justifiably, no one can force me to eat broccoli. Which brings up

00:10:34.760 a poll that was conducted not too long ago, and the question posed was,

00:10:39.480 what is the most hated vegetable in Canada? And it turned out to be Trudeau.

00:10:51.160 It'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.

00:10:59.860 All right, so there's the...

00:11:02.040 The Alberta Prosperity Project has FAQs that answer all those questions.

00:11:06.420 And she said to the priest, Father, please forgive me, for I have sinned horribly.

00:11:12.220 And the priest said, you're right here, what is it that you do?

00:11:15.500 Hey, Blitzhacker, shout out to you, man.

00:11:17.360 and killed a politician and the priest smiles and looks at her and says my dear i'm here to 0.81

00:11:23.760 listen to your sins not turn to me on your service okay now i'm on the other side of this i like to

00:11:35.360 keep people alive all right so albertaprosperityproject.com okay um now how many people here

00:11:44.000 are already on the independence train and want albert to become southern country

00:11:50.160 okay and how many people now who are here this evening are not sure and need more information

00:11:58.160 to make a decision you need to come out blitz you need to come out 25 and love to meet you

00:12:06.800 let's go to the next question how many people here are pleased with the outcome of the recent

00:12:11.520 federal election okay there's a hand in the back but i i know what he's thinking he's glad that

00:12:21.120 this happened that the outcome is what it is because he knew that that would stimulate the

00:12:28.560 sovereignty movement so there you go and he was like

00:12:32.160 so when we look at the electoral map after the election what do we see we see that

00:12:44.720 saskatchewan alberta central and northern bc didn't vote the way the rest of the country voted

00:12:52.000 and that is a habitual every federal election is just like that and why is that

00:13:00.080 anybody have any ideas yes we don't fit that's yeah that's a square page i can get into a round

00:13:09.040 hole well it's really because we have a different culture out here and we have different values

00:13:14.720 and speaking of values has anybody read mr carney's book entitled values

00:13:19.520 so what do you have to have all right well mr carney of course is just the next step from mr

00:13:30.560 trudeau because the entire cabinet consists of the same people so there's not much change except that

00:13:36.800 he's far better educated he's far more persuasive and he's far far more devious and he's far more

00:13:46.000 dangerous. And if you're not sure about him being dangerous, let me give you some examples from his

00:13:53.760 book entitled Values. So this is what he says. He claims that Western civilization is morally rotten,

00:14:02.960 corrupted by capitalism, and capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than

00:14:07.520 anything else corrupted by capitalism which has led to a climate emergency

00:14:15.120 right okay and to deal with this climate emergency

00:14:20.880 he claims that um there must be rigid controls not just controls

00:14:26.720 rigid controls on personal freedoms think of the trucker conger 0.97

00:14:32.080 not just a target company, but think of the COVID mandates. When he said rivet controls,

00:14:38.560 I see something even more dystopian than what happened during COVID. But rivet controls on

00:14:47.040 personal freedoms, also on business. And business is the business of the oil and gas industry and

00:14:53.840 agriculture. And rigid controls on banking and financial institutions that would fund those

00:15:00.240 businesses and he goes on to say that he doesn't promise that life will get better for ordinary

00:15:07.440 people just think of that term ordinary people we're ordinary people so what does he think he is

00:15:16.480 ordinary people there'll be fewer choices 0.97

00:15:23.040 he goes on to say that there'll be less travel

00:15:26.080 as well as what else do you say let me let me more inconvenience and more poverty does that

00:15:39.160 sound like something that you would be interested in he also goes on to say that that as a result

00:15:45.940 of these things assets will be stranded meaning businesses are going to go belly up people lose

00:15:52.080 their homes that's what he means by assets will be stranded and how does he intend to achieve

00:15:58.160 these kinds of objectives and many more that are right out of the playbook of the world economic

00:16:03.680 forum well one way is censorship and control he wants to control the media and he already has

00:16:14.320 controlled mainstream media that already started with trudeau and of course they're related and

00:16:18.880 explain them. So in addition to that control of the media, censorship. So we've

00:16:31.360 got the Online Harm Act and the Online Streaming Act to control independent

00:16:37.480 media and also to control social media. So you're only going to get your

00:16:43.900 information source at some point in the future from one source. This is the

00:16:53.440 essence of prestige, isn't it? The ability to exchange ideas and they want to

00:16:58.000 thwart that. They want you to hear information from only one source. So that

00:17:05.800 is what they intend on doing in addition to implementing a digital ID to track

00:17:10.960 your every move and if they get their way there'll be a central bank digital currency and for those

00:17:16.640 of you who may have contributed to the trucker convo a few dollars and you had your accounts

00:17:20.960 frozen it'll be a lot easier yes you can for sure through the central bank digital currency

00:17:27.920 so on top of that that's not it that's not all that is intended here um you may know that he

00:17:37.440 wants to hollow up the middle class and this is how he's going to do it to create a an underclass 0.99

00:17:44.080 and an elite class and the underclass will do the servicing of the elite class so for

00:17:50.720 one thing he wants to lower the voting age to 16. okay and this is so that then if you're 16 17 18

00:18:00.800 and you feel as though you're getting something from a liberal party when you start off voting

00:18:05.440 liberal you will continue to vote liberal but beyond that to really snap this idea

00:18:13.040 he wants to introduce a universal basic income when you hit 17

00:18:18.160 for 2 000 a month and so what's that going to do to provide an incentive to 17 18 year olds

00:18:25.200 if they're getting 2 000 a month to want to get a higher education learn a skill and trade or get

00:18:31.200 into the job market you see what's happening here but that is all by design all right so

00:18:40.400 how do we get out of all of this well you would think that reasonable reasonable people could

00:18:46.080 negotiate better circumstances but we can't what we find is that the liberal socialist marxist

00:18:55.600 policy is being advanced at a very rapid rate and it's being accelerated through the efforts

00:19:02.320 of the world economic forum as well of which mr carney is a prominent member that like many of you

00:19:08.080 probably already know so if and when you understand the constitution and alberta's history you realize

00:19:18.160 that we can never change anything the way our westminster system of government operates our

00:19:24.800 our parliamentary democracy, we don't have a real democracy.

00:19:29.560 We don't have representation by population

00:19:32.280 in the House of Commons.

00:19:33.140 We don't have regional representation in the Senate.

00:19:35.500 We have no control over the Supreme Court appointment.

00:19:39.840 So what is this only solution?

00:19:43.300 Well, the only solution, really, folks, honestly,

00:19:45.540 is just for Alberta to become a sovereign country.

00:19:48.620 Hell, that's right.

00:19:54.800 And you're willing to get out from under the oppressive over-governance, over-regulation, and over-taxation that we all experience.

00:20:05.520 And just in terms of the term sovereignty, this is not a left or right.

00:20:10.580 This is pragmatic.

00:20:12.320 It benefits everybody.

00:20:13.620 And when I say pragmatic, freedom is really freedom from external interference.

00:20:18.900 It's freedom from persecution.

00:20:20.760 And when I say freedom from persecution, I mean freedom from political, economic, regulatory, religious, and cultural persecution, as well as regulatory persecution.

00:20:31.440 And you've all experienced it, and perhaps you don't even know it, but you have.

00:20:37.000 Now, let's take a moment and think about how is it that we got into this mess in the first place.

00:20:44.920 And I'm going to take you back to September 1, 1905.

00:20:48.220 there's a reason they said it like that. September 1, 1905. That's when Albert and Saskatchewan were

00:20:55.560 incorporated into Canada, right? And that was due to Sir Clifford Sifted. He was the Minister of the

00:21:01.560 Interior and the Liberal Government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. But if you want to understand why we are

00:21:06.820 where we are at now, think of his words when he was giving a presentation to an audience in Winnipeg

00:21:15.320 in 1904, before Alberta and Saskatchewan joined.

00:21:20.560 This is what he said.

00:21:21.960 He said, we desire, and all Canadian patriots desire,

00:21:25.960 now Canadian patriots in 1904 were the people living in the East.

00:21:29.400 So we desire, and all Canadian patriots desire,

00:21:32.620 the great trade of the prairies, that's Alberta and Saskatchewan as well,

00:21:37.640 shall go to enrich our people in the East, 0.91

00:21:40.220 to build up our factories and our places of work,

00:21:42.420 and in every legitimate way and contribute to its prosperity.

00:21:47.040 Did you hear anything about the benefit to the West?

00:21:50.400 No.

00:21:50.940 No, you didn't.

00:21:51.980 We started off as a colony to serve the interests of the East,

00:21:56.400 and here we are 120 years later,

00:21:59.520 and we continue to be pillaged and plundered for our wealth

00:22:02.440 and to have values shoved down our throat

00:22:05.780 that don't align with Western values.

00:22:09.740 It's really not simple.

00:22:12.420 And economically, consequent to equalization, the national energy policy, other confiscatory tax policies, and regulatory costs,

00:22:25.340 we give $800 billion to Ottawa who haven't received a cent in return.

00:22:32.620 The Premier has pointed out that in the last several years, we've lost a half a trillion dollars of planned investment into Alberta.

00:22:43.620 Why? Because there wasn't a business case for those businesses to invest in Alberta because they couldn't see any profit. 0.64

00:22:54.620 Why? Because of federal regulatory and taxation policy. That's the reason.

00:23:03.380 We also are losing $26.5 billion every year because we can't get our oil and gas to international markets,

00:23:12.340 according to a research report from the Frontier Center for Public Policy just released a few weeks ago.

00:23:18.060 And how has this been manifest in terms of economic growth in Canada compared to all industrialized countries in the world?

00:23:28.200 Economic growth in Canada compared to all other industrialized countries, we are dead last in Canada.

00:23:37.300 Dead last.

00:23:38.520 And again, why is that?

00:23:40.320 Federal regulations and taxation.

00:23:43.540 That's why.

00:23:45.080 so let me touch on sovereignty because i'm going to talk about bill one in a second of the ucp

00:23:52.680 government god is sovereign means sovereign means there's nothing above right

00:24:04.280 that each one of you is sovereign and when you give up control of your life through excessive

00:24:10.520 regulations you're giving up control you're giving up some of your sovereignty as well

00:24:17.080 when you are overtaxed and those dollars are wasted for virtue signaling causes that

00:24:24.520 align with your values then you are also giving up some of your sovereignty so think about it

00:24:32.040 at a personal level what this all means and if i just want to put a sharp focus on it the

00:24:39.000 difference between where you are now if you're making a hundred thousand dollars a year you're

00:24:45.640 paying 35 to 45 thousand dollars in taxes so you've got net 50 to 50 55 000 roughly left over 55 to

00:24:55.240 60 000 left over to purchase what you want what we're proposing and all the math has been done

00:25:03.720 and jeff is going to talk about that in more detail instead of having 45 50 000

00:25:09.640 dollars 60 000 you would have 90 000 to pay for what it is you want and over time we think we can

00:25:18.040 eliminate taxation altogether so it might not even take that much time like about five years

00:25:24.440 but let's look at the provincial government now premier smith and her government passed into law

00:25:30.440 shortly after being elected, Bill 1. Now Bill 1 was the Alberta Sovereignty

00:25:37.000 within the United Canada Act. They used the term sovereignty. Why did they use

00:25:41.500 that term? Because they wanted to get out from under federal overreach of

00:25:48.940 provincial constitutional authority, okay? And they figured that this act would

00:25:54.980 help them get there well let's look at what's happened so the provincial

00:26:02.300 government has been trying to negotiate with the federal government and because

00:26:07.580 it hasn't been very successful they've launched some 18 lawsuits against the

00:26:13.640 federal government in relation to oil and gas development and transportation

00:26:18.740 with respect to censorship with respect to agriculture and with respect to

00:26:23.240 to property rights, gun rights.

00:26:25.700 You didn't know, but David Lemini has made the point,

00:26:28.760 the former Minister of Justice in the Trudeau government,

00:26:31.220 who's now just been appointed as an advisor to Kearney,

00:26:35.540 that Canadians don't have the right to own property.

00:26:37.680 Did you know that?

00:26:39.320 All right, so this is the way the Premier has responded

00:26:44.400 to the intransigence of the federal government.

00:26:47.020 Is this really any way to have to run the province

00:26:51.140 by having to fight perpetually with the federal government

00:26:54.640 and get nowhere.

00:26:56.220 And those lawsuits may take years, even decades,

00:26:59.520 to resolve.

00:27:00.780 We don't have the time.

00:27:03.200 Because what Mr. Carney is about to do to us,

00:27:07.120 you're not going to be very happy over time

00:27:12.120 when you find that you're in the underclass,

00:27:14.880 which is where he wants to put us,

00:27:16.560 because we're ordinary people.

00:27:19.120 But what's a little bit disappointing,

00:27:21.180 and I have a great deal of respect for Premier Smith.

00:27:25.220 We know her well, she's articulate, she's intelligent,

00:27:30.080 and she can get a message across.

00:27:32.260 And ostensibly, her rhetoric would give you the impression

00:27:37.180 she's really standing up for Alberta, correct?

00:27:40.940 And in a way she is.

00:27:43.760 But she could have done some things

00:27:45.880 which would have helped us get more sovereignty

00:27:50.420 that wouldn't have even required,

00:27:53.080 wouldn't have even required anything more

00:27:56.680 than the courage to inform the federal government

00:28:00.160 that she's gonna take control of provincial policing, 0.98

00:28:03.940 immigration, pensions, employment insurance,

00:28:07.680 and provincial tax collection.

00:28:09.540 None of that requires a referendum.

00:28:11.800 It only takes informing the federal government

00:28:15.200 that's what she was going to do but she didn't do it and it doesn't really make sense because

00:28:21.280 um we over fund the pension plan by three billion dollars a year so we'd say three billion

00:28:26.240 we over find employment insurance by a billion and a half immigration we have no problem with 1.00

00:28:32.800 immigration except when it's uncontrolled and it is uncontrolled and we are we are being flooded

00:28:41.040 with refugees but on the other side on the flip side there are people that really are here for 1.00

00:28:47.760 the alberta advantage and they are contributing to alberta society so immigration is a two-edged

00:28:54.480 sword here there's benefit and potential non-benefit there'll be more discussion by my

00:28:59.120 colleagues about this in a few minutes so um and quebec of course has control of immigration

00:29:08.800 provincial tax collection and they have their own pension plan which is far more productive

00:29:15.680 than the canadian pension plan if people actually only do that and of course taking control of

00:29:22.000 provincial tax collection is one thing what we really like to see is control if we're in canada

00:29:28.640 we'd like to have the the right to take control of all tax collection it's the golden rule he who

00:29:36.000 has the gold rules we already would be in a position then to say to the federal government

00:29:40.320 well this is what we're willing to pay for and we're not going to pay for your other virgin 0.95

00:29:44.800 state signaling stupid causes and that's the sort of thing that we could do but the only way we'd 0.98

00:29:52.320 ever get there is if we were already a southern country first and then they came back to us to 0.98

00:29:58.880 rejoin but why would we anyhow i digress there for a second so so now the next thing that um so so

00:30:10.400 fundamentally what i was trying to get with respect to these five things is that her strong rhetoric

00:30:17.280 is not backed up by actions that it so easily could have been um and i find that extremely

00:30:23.680 disappointed so moving on from there as many of you know she's introduced the

00:30:34.180 Alberta next panel all right this is sort of similar to the fair deal panel

00:30:40.480 that Jason Kenney held when he was in power and if you remember from the fair

00:30:47.980 deal panel there were numerous recommendations that were made but Jason

00:30:53.260 Kenning decided that he would just take one of them and he would hold a referendum on ending

00:30:58.780 equalization. And I just want to make a point about this. The difficulty of opening and changing

00:31:07.160 the constitution because the eight things that she has articulated in this Alberta next panel

00:31:15.200 all require constitutional change. So I want you to understand how difficult it is to open and

00:31:22.520 change the Constitution and we'll use any equalization as an example. How many people

00:31:28.280 here voted to end equalization in 2021? Well, quite a number of you. Okay. Do you know why

00:31:34.000 nothing happened? Nothing could happen. It was impossible. It was a virgin signaling referendum

00:31:40.600 by Jason Kenney. He was trying to appease the Alberta electorate by doing something,

00:31:45.520 But 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.

00:32:10.520 Hurdle 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.

00:32:24.260 Third, where we don't have regional representation, in the Senate, there also has to be a majority vote to end equalization. 0.71

00:32:34.620 And four, remarkable as it is, that has a de facto veto.

00:32:41.300 That's crazy.

00:32:42.280 You can see, do you think there's any possibility of opening a change in the Constitution here?

00:32:46.840 Very true.

00:32:47.320 No, 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.

00:33:08.600 And 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.

00:33:21.480 So, you see the difficulty here?

00:33:24.420 This is why we can't make anything happen that we want to make happen for the benefit of all Albertans.

00:33:32.780 We're snuggered by the parliamentary structure that we have,

00:33:37.480 the Supreme Court, et cetera.

00:33:39.980 All right, so fortunately, we do have a solution, right?

00:33:44.000 There's a legal pathway for Alberta.

00:33:47.220 It's been defined in the Clarity Act.

00:33:51.820 Do people know about what the Clarity Act has to offer for us

00:33:55.380 as this pathway up?

00:33:57.440 Well, for those that don't, there are three major criteria.

00:34:01.140 One is you have to pose to the public in a referendum a clear question, and there has to be a fair outcome.

00:34:09.060 In my opinion, that's 50% plus one regarding international lawdies.

00:34:14.040 And you have to demonstrate that you have discussions with other interested parties, political parties, etc.

00:34:22.580 All right, so let's get to the point where we have a petition, okay, that will force the referendum.

00:34:32.420 And you probably know that the Bill 54, which was proclaimed into law on July the 4th, has learned...

00:34:41.420 How's the audio, guys? Can you let me know how the audio is, please?

00:34:44.560 From 600,000 to 170,000.

00:34:46.360 Audio check, please.

00:34:47.260 all right well we already have over a quarter of a million individuals who have registered with us

00:34:54.320 so getting the petition done is only a matter of getting our question approved and then getting

00:34:59.820 the petition signatures that get certified by elections alberta and then it goes to

00:35:05.000 the provincial government and we expect that the referendum will be called sometime

00:35:09.680 in 2026 that is the objective right now so

00:35:15.640 so that successful referendum then and assuming we and we would fulfill all of the criteria

00:35:28.120 that um it obligates the federal government and the provinces to negotiate with alberta

00:35:35.560 but what it does have clarity on in the clarity act where it lacks clarity um that

00:35:42.680 what happens if negotiations fail? Okay, there's no clarity on that, but you can think that, well,

00:35:54.400 gee, the whole thing has failed. We're not able to take Alberta out of Canada. Well, actually,

00:36:02.260 there is something more that can be done, and it's based on international law, and I'm no

00:36:07.180 constitutional lawyer, but we've got a brilliant one here right now. And when you look at the analysis

00:36:14.920 of that Quebec secession reference that the federal government posed to the provincial

00:36:19.800 government, in other words, does the province have the right to leave Canada? Well, that analysis

00:36:24.840 by the Supreme Court gives us a clue as to what can be done. And I'm going to pose a question to

00:36:31.660 you all do you think that we have been by the government as a province subjugated dominated

00:36:43.740 exploited or have we had our self-determination restricted by the federal government

00:36:53.900 all of the above yes that section 154 sorry guys the internet is a little choppy out here but uh

00:37:00.940 the question doing the best we can and then the second part of that is because that defines um

00:37:09.020 that 154 what i just posed to you and it basically says that if if those things are in existence

00:37:16.860 been dominated and exploited etc then as a people you have the right to form a new country okay

00:37:24.620 But you get political and legal legitimacy when other countries acknowledge your successful referendum.

00:37:35.060 And we know from Jeff and I having met with senior U.S. administrative officials

00:37:40.500 that the U.S. government will acknowledge Alberta's sovereignty once we have that successful referendum.

00:37:48.620 Let's go!

00:37:49.820 and so this is the way it can work successful referendum and now the premier has an opportunity

00:38:01.300 she can go down the rabbit hole of endless negotiations pursuant to the clarity act

00:38:06.480 or she can the day after the votes are counted she can then say to the citizens of alberta

00:38:15.100 Having received a call from the U.S. administration, citizens of Alberta, today I announce that Alberta is a sovereign country, and that's it.

00:38:26.720 Thank you very much for your attention.

00:38:45.100 Thank you, Dr. Mulberry, for all of the work that you've put into this and the hours and the time. It's truly appreciated.

00:38:59.100 My next speaker is Mr. Jeffrey Raff. Jeffrey Raff is a constitutional lawyer with 34 years of experience.

00:39:09.100 He is a leader in his field and has been pivotal in representing First Nations communities and in constitutional law for our indigenous leaders.

00:39:20.280 Jeff is general counsel on the APP board and is a leader and supporter of Alberta independents.

00:39:27.360 Please welcome...

00:39:28.420 We're still going, guys. Don't leave. It's Jeff Ratt's turn now.

00:39:35.440 Here we go.

00:39:39.100 Wow, what a great turnout tonight.

00:39:44.620 Okay, next question I have.

00:39:46.640 Are there any Lamoureux or Lamouris in the house?

00:39:49.920 Hello, cousins.

00:39:52.600 Mike, I almost feel like Fort Saskatchewan is my hometown.

00:39:57.340 I literally grew up every second or third Sunday coming out to Fort Saskatchewan to,

00:40:03.540 well, actually, to the Hamlet of Lamoureux to go to Mass at Notre Dame du Nord's church

00:40:08.800 just across the river in Lamoureux.

00:40:11.600 My grandmother was Laura Lamoureux,

00:40:13.980 the daughter of Alcibiad Lamoureux,

00:40:16.080 and she was born in 1896,

00:40:18.720 about five miles due west of here

00:40:20.680 on the bald-ass prairie on the other side of the river,

00:40:24.320 delivered by a Cree midwife.

00:40:26.360 So this is, to me, coming to Fort Saskatchewan

00:40:29.700 always feels like coming home,

00:40:31.520 so I'm very pleased and honored to be here.

00:40:33.960 Something else that's kind of funny about being in Fort Saskatchewan

00:40:36.540 Because when we would come out to church at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, where they'd have mass in French,

00:40:42.840 myself and my French cousins would be out in the barnyard swearing away in French.

00:40:46.600 And of course, anybody who knows French swear religion,

00:40:49.880 one afternoon, my son Blanche, my great-a-doublin,

00:40:54.900 and she was extremely angry with myself and my cousins.

00:40:58.300 And she said in French,

00:40:59.260 Si tu fais sacré, il faut que tu sache en un dépecule.

00:41:02.240 Bonjour, mais pas te comprend.

00:41:03.420 wrong and what that means in english is if you have to swear swear in english so the good lord

00:41:09.500 won't understand i was raised from a very i like to say i was raised from a very early age

00:41:16.840 as a french catholic who was taught his child that god didn't speak english i didn't know

00:41:21.220 but he spoke french honestly i had no idea that's my roots in port saskatchewan i had no idea he

00:41:26.300 spoke french um being here reminds me of it i was at a 50th wedding anniversary not very far

00:41:32.460 from here not too long ago and the old guy got up to speak in the microphone i see a lot of husbands

00:41:37.800 and wives out there so you'll understand this and he said people ask me how we've had 50 years of

00:41:43.280 successful marriage he said well i'll tell you right now on day one i laid down the law i told

00:41:49.880 her on day one she could make all the small decisions but i'd make all the big ones and he

00:41:55.260 says the secret to 50 years of successful marriage is that 50 years i've never had to make a big

00:41:59.520 decision. So for all you wives out there, if you can please encourage your husbands,

00:42:07.340 your families, your kids, your grandkids to make the small decision, the little decision,

00:42:11.800 to vote yes for Alberta independence.

00:42:13.760 Yeah, let's go.

00:42:17.960 Okay.

00:42:21.060 Free Alberta.

00:42:22.320 The next thing I'd like to pick up on is what Dr. Modry was saying about how Mark Carney

00:42:27.400 is literally an existential threat

00:42:30.080 to all of us

00:42:30.880 and is an existential threat

00:42:32.420 to the province of Alberta.

00:42:35.280 Everybody needs to internalize

00:42:37.280 what it is that Mark Carney

00:42:38.880 has already done to us

00:42:40.600 and what he's planning to do to us.

00:42:42.580 Because don't forget

00:42:43.400 that when Trudeau was Prime Minister,

00:42:45.620 he wasn't really Prime Minister. 0.96

00:42:47.960 He was a puppet. 1.00

00:42:49.000 Mark Carney had his hand up his butt 1.00

00:42:50.840 and made his mouth... 0.99

00:42:52.040 Excuse me if that seems a bit crude

00:42:54.800 and Trudeau probably liked it.

00:42:57.400 shout out to all americans shout out to all our birds thank you all for your support mark carney

00:43:05.560 the central banker you know he was uh the chairman of the bank of canada then he went on to head the

00:43:10.900 bank of england uh you know etc etc so he's tied in with that whole group so does everybody in this

00:43:17.600 room when you go to the grocery store feel like things are twice as expensive as they were five

00:43:21.600 years ago literally twice as expensive okay well there's a real easy reason for that it's because

00:43:27.400 mark carney and all the world economic forum dominated central bankers decided in the last

00:43:33.500 five years to double with m2 money supply okay so five years in canada trudeau and the bank of

00:43:41.660 canada with mark carney's you know collusion with the american fed federal reserve the bank of

00:43:48.380 England, the Central Bank of Europe, they all doubled the money supply during COVID. 0.93

00:43:52.640 That's how they're going to pay for all their bullshit COVID handouts, was to literally 0.93

00:43:56.780 just print money, you know, and double the money supply. 0.96

00:44:01.720 So, of course, anybody that understands basic economics knows that if you take something

00:44:06.040 and just for no reason just double the amount of it, you're going to cut value of it in

00:44:09.880 half.

00:44:10.620 So the reason that everything costs so much is that Mark Carney and all the buddy central

00:44:15.080 bankers decided that they're going to make without telling you because it's a form of tax

00:44:19.480 on all of your savings on all of your house shut out to you alberta man shut out to you

00:44:23.660 the value of your money in half right and we're all suffering from it now right this is what

00:44:31.320 mark cardi has done to us and don't think that that's where it stops right like we all hear

00:44:37.520 about you know like mark cardi like danielle's i call it the courtship of danielle smith she

00:44:42.560 thinks that she's actually going to get something out of Mark Carney that's going to be good for

00:44:46.240 Alberta. There is not a damn thing that Danielle Smith can get from Mark Carney that is more

00:44:52.080 valuable than a complete end to all federal taxation and all federal regulation of the

00:44:58.340 citizens of Alberta. And let's talk about that, right? Because we all know as Albertans,

00:45:08.260 nothing from Ottawa comes

00:45:10.420 for free. Everything

00:45:12.080 comes with some sort of condition.

00:45:14.940 Right? Then Mark

00:45:16.060 says, well, I might give you a pipeline

00:45:18.320 provided that there's

00:45:20.120 consensus for a pipeline

00:45:22.040 and then we have the Prime Minister or the

00:45:24.060 Premier of Quebec going, oh, we

00:45:26.180 don't want no dirty Alberta Oilo going 0.92

00:45:28.120 through Quebec. Right? So there's

00:45:30.260 Danielle on Team Canada. Boom!

00:45:32.020 Gets cross-checked in the face by the Premier of Quebec.

00:45:34.840 Then she goes, well, we can

00:45:36.220 get a pipeline through BC and then

00:45:38.020 david evey from british columbia stands up and says oh no we don't want another outdoor oil

00:45:42.240 pipeline through uh bam she gets elbowed in the mouth by another one of her teammates on team

00:45:48.680 canada i mean that's what it means to be on team canada if you're in albertan every time you turn

00:45:53.700 around you're getting cross-checked slashed elbowed whatever it is it's not a hell of a team

00:45:58.720 yeah i don't like south dakota or montana i would say condition for an alberta pipeline so he's

00:46:05.100 approved in Alberta pipeline already, like there is actually a pipeline approved, y'all just don't

00:46:10.000 know that it's a CO2 pipeline, right? It's a CO2 pipeline to go from a giant, get this $50 billion

00:46:17.580 carbon sucking machine that Mark Carney and all of his so-called stakeholder capitalist buddies

00:46:26.500 want to build in the heart of the Alberta oil sands to suck CO2 out of the air, turn it into

00:46:32.560 liquid CO2, transport it to Mitch's neck of the woods near Bonneville, put it back into

00:46:37.420 the ground, for no real economic benefit or economic reason, other than they have this

00:46:43.840 brilliant idea that this will somehow magically decarbonize Alberta oil. Has anybody heard

00:46:52.240 anything more stupid? Right? Decarbonized hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons. Take the carbon 1.00

00:47:00.220 away, what are you left with? Water. Right? Decarbonized oil. I mean, you can't make this

00:47:06.860 stuff up. It is so stupid that you literally can't make it up. But of course, they sell 1.00

00:47:12.080 this on what I consider to be the biggest fraud that has ever been perpetrated, you

00:47:18.800 know, against Western society in the history of the world. And of course, that fraud is

00:47:25.280 climate emergency we're all gonna die because of the climate emergency right so you know that's

00:47:34.640 what this is all about so they claim somehow or other that the weather is an existential threat

00:47:39.800 to us right and much like the ancient aztecs that were literally cutting you know the physical 1.00

00:47:46.020 hearts out of working men and women on the view that it would make it rain these idiots in ottawa 0.98

00:47:52.120 their purport to govern Alberta, think that they can change the weather by cutting the 0.99

00:47:58.980 hearts out of working men and women in Alberta by taxing them to death, which is exactly 0.91

00:48:04.980 what they're doing. 1.00

00:48:05.680 We are dealing with idiots in Ottawa who literally believe that they can change the weather through 1.00

00:48:11.660 taxation, right? 1.00

00:48:13.760 Has anybody, you know, like again, it's one of the stupidest things that we've ever heard. 0.95

00:48:17.880 And that's one of the reasons that I personally am so strongly in favor of Alberta independence, 1.00

00:48:23.880 is I'm completely sick and tired of being governed by stupid people. Right? 1.00

00:48:29.880 Dave Bradley, they deposited the full application and we're waiting on approval from Elections Alberta.

00:48:37.880 Daniel's this new buddy, they signed an MOU the other day, big deal.

00:48:41.880 Doug Ford from Ontario.

00:48:43.880 Does anybody remember the start of the phony tariff war three months ago?

00:48:48.880 Doug Ford stabs out when he's red in the face and,

00:48:51.640 we're going to teach the Americans a lesson, we're going to shut off opera oil, right?

00:48:57.560 Hey, Doug, all of Ontario's oil comes up through,

00:49:02.520 goes down into the states through line five and up into Ontario through line nine.

00:49:08.480 So you'd be cutting off your own oil. 1.00

00:49:10.520 Oh, I mean, these people are so stupid, they don't even know where their oil comes from, right? 1.00

00:49:17.560 And this is the country we live in. 1.00

00:49:19.300 And then that idiot G. Bo, our so-called climate change minister under Trudeau, 0.99

00:49:23.800 who's now the minister, they call him the minister of culture and culturalism, 0.99

00:49:29.220 but like, here for me, the G. Bo is now our minister of censorship in Canada,

00:49:34.000 who will be in charge of controlling our speech on the internet.

00:49:38.100 I can ask the, I can ask them when the Q&A begins. I can ask them how long it takes.

00:49:46.100 So, anyway, you know, Moe, who literally, his entire life, was fighting against pipelines in Canada, was shocked.

00:49:55.100 Climate change gives me an area too.

00:49:58.100 court that there wasn't an Alberta pipeline from Alberta to Eastern Canada going through

00:50:03.560 the states. I mean, he didn't know, notwithstanding the fact that he'd been fighting pipelines

00:50:08.360 his entire life. This is how stupid the people are that are elected by Eastern Canada to 1.00

00:50:14.300 govern Alberta. And I, for one, am heartily sick of it. And I say that it's time for all 1.00

00:50:19.480 of us to tell these people loud and clear by voting to a simple referendum question

00:50:25.060 that complies with section 1 sub 3 of the clarity act specifically do you agree that alberta

00:50:32.340 shall seek shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of canada

00:50:39.140 for me the only answer to that question is yes and again you know we could go on all night about

00:50:45.940 you know how bad um the government in canada is for us but another one i want you guys to consider

00:50:51.620 and dennis touched on it right because again this whole idea of uh it's a tricky thing because the

00:50:58.900 there's a competing question 16 year old kid from a politician who's trying to keep alberta in canada

00:51:06.100 but the question from the app is constitutional so it might get precedent over the other one

00:51:11.540 go to university go to a trade school make anything useful out of their lives no at the

00:51:16.420 the age of 16 they're going to be allowed to vote themselves out of school and sit around at home 0.90

00:51:23.500 smoking government legalized dope right and be given two thousand dollars a month to smoke pot

00:51:30.380 and play video games like does anybody in this room think that that's the future that we wanted

00:51:36.660 for our children or our grandchildren right this is an outright attack on the culture of this

00:51:42.900 province. Alberta does have a distinct culture. We're hard-working people. We like to get up

00:51:47.720 early in the morning. We like to go to work. We like to earn our own money. We like to take care

00:51:52.700 of our families, our children, our grandchildren, and our parents. And most of all, we want government

00:51:59.360 to stay that day. As some of you may know, I spent a chunk of the COVID years fighting the

00:52:11.620 government, and I was actually the lawyer that succeeded in getting the only order in Canada

00:52:16.100 declaring every single CMOH order, you know, chief medical officer of health order in Alberta to be

00:52:23.340 illegal. Every stupid order that Jason Kenney made. Do you remember when he shut down the high 1.00

00:52:34.000 schools and our 18-year-old kids couldn't go to high school, but they could still go to the strip

00:52:37.920 clubs, the bars, and the casinos? I mean, this is the kind of stupidity, again, that 1.00

00:52:43.080 we're being subjected to by idiots in Ottawa, idiots in Europe, that Mark Carney now wants 1.00

00:52:49.300 us to join and spend $225 million of our money defending Europe. Did anybody here vote for 1.00

00:52:57.960 that? I sure as hell didn't. Right? Oh, yeah, sorry, billion, not million. The other thing

00:53:05.700 I want people to internalize when we talk

00:53:07.640 about Mark Carney being an existential threat

00:53:09.660 to Albertans, is

00:53:11.480 how many people here are at home?

00:53:15.620 Right? Well, do you know

00:53:17.420 that Mark Carney and all the

00:53:19.500 crattons around him in Ottawa have

00:53:21.320 realized that the biggest store of wealth

00:53:23.480 in Canada isn't personal savings

00:53:25.620 accounts, but home equity?

00:53:27.560 That there's over $4 trillion

00:53:29.120 in home equity in Canada locked up

00:53:31.560 in all of your houses, and that he

00:53:33.520 wants each and every one of you

00:53:35.240 to be forced to have an annual appraisal done on your homes

00:53:38.940 so that they can tax your home equity on a going-forward basis?

00:53:43.260 I mean, think about that.

00:53:45.240 You know, this is why when the World Economic Forum says

00:53:47.740 you'll own nothing and be happy, right,

00:53:51.080 they're going to tax your homes right out from underneath you

00:53:53.980 so that Mark Carney's company, Brookfield,

00:53:56.580 can come along and scoop up all of your real estate,

00:53:59.580 turn your houses into eight plexes for all the immigrants 1.00

00:54:02.220 that they're flooding our country with, right, 0.63

00:54:04.420 and you'll be happy little renters paying rent

00:54:07.900 and then all of your rent then goes to Carney's secret offshore bank account

00:54:11.900 and his Brookfield shares that none of us are allowed to know about.

00:54:15.620 So this is Mark Carney's future for Alberta.

00:54:19.080 Also keep in mind that when Mark Carney talks about Canada becoming an energy superpower,

00:54:24.820 he's not talking about oil and gas.

00:54:27.340 When he talks about energy corridors,

00:54:29.920 he's not talking about oil and gas pipeline corridors.

00:54:33.220 No, 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.

00:54:45.280 And we're going to have nuclear reactors all over Alberta to feed Mark Carty's dream of a gas-free vehicle Alberta.

00:54:54.920 So just think about that for a second.

00:54:57.160 We all know what winters are like up here.

00:55:00.180 I mean, anybody that owns an electric vehicle, God bless you.

00:55:03.220 But, 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.

00:55:18.340 So 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.

00:55:26.220 Those vehicles don't make sense here.

00:55:27.880 But Carney wants to get rid of all 5 million cars and trucks that are gas-powered on the Alberta highways in 10 years.

00:55:37.140 Right?

00:55:37.940 By 2035.

00:55:39.160 No more diesel trucks.

00:55:40.460 No more gas-powered cars.

00:55:42.560 He wants everybody to drive electric cars.

00:55:45.440 Well, let's talk about the Alberta power grid for a second.

00:55:49.240 Right?

00:55:49.420 The entire Alberta power grid, right, is powered by 12,000 megawatts of electricity.

00:55:58.280 To power one million electric cars, coincidentally, you need 12,000 megawatts of electricity, right?

00:56:07.460 So to reach Carney's dream of taking away all of our cars and trucks and having us all drive electric vehicles that we don't want, right,

00:56:17.080 they're going to have to quintuple the size of the Alberta power grid

00:56:21.160 with all of these Brookfield-owned nuclear reactors and power lines

00:56:25.800 so that everybody in this room, you'll be happy to hear,

00:56:29.140 that every time you have to go to plug in one of your government-mandated electric vehicles,

00:56:34.300 if there's even enough of them to go around,

00:56:36.160 I don't think, again, we're ordinary people,

00:56:38.600 and they're quite happy for us to stay in our homes and collect UBI and not go anywhere.

00:56:43.320 So if they even allow 5 million more cars and trucks back on the road.

00:56:47.080 But think about that.

00:56:47.900 For those of you that are going to be lucky enough to have a government ration card that will allow you to have an electric vehicle,

00:56:54.200 every time you plug it in, the money goes directly to Brookfield and into Carney's auction account that none of us are allowed to see.

00:57:02.340 This is how corrupt Canada has become as a country, and this is why we need to get out.

00:57:08.600 You know, and for those of you...

00:57:10.080 Sorry.

00:57:12.820 So for those of you who have been following what's been going on, Bill C-5 is a big part of this, right?

00:57:21.500 So this is the National Projects Bill, right?

00:57:25.040 Daniel got her little cheerleader pom-poms out, and it was really good, and all the conservatives voted in favor of it.

00:57:30.180 It was unanimous, and everybody was really happy.

00:57:32.420 But of course, none of them realized that this bill, literally, let's flip the pages of history back to 1938,

00:57:39.820 basically could have been written

00:57:41.980 by Benito Mussolini

00:57:43.380 but stakeholder capitalism

00:57:46.920 is nothing more or less

00:57:48.700 than the same program

00:57:49.860 that Mussolini enacted in Italy

00:57:51.940 which was that Mussolini

00:57:53.580 as the supreme leader of Italy

00:57:55.340 got to pick which of his friends

00:57:57.320 got sole source contracts

00:57:58.940 for which projects in the national interest

00:58:01.200 he got to exempt his friends

00:58:03.340 from the national laws

00:58:04.900 with regard to the construction of their projects

00:58:07.060 because they were his friends

00:58:08.320 Those are all elements of Bill C-5.

00:58:10.520 Nobody's talking about that.

00:58:12.440 And of course, you know, anybody that read history or, you know, knows what I'm talking about with regard to Mussolini,

00:58:17.260 you know, his word for stakeholder capitalism was fascisti in Italian, which was everybody together, everybody working together.

00:58:25.320 The English word for that is fascism.

00:58:28.040 Right?

00:58:28.660 So this is the program Mark Carney has now enacted for Canada.

00:58:32.640 and our you know our federalist conservative politicians voted for it danielle smith thought 1.00

00:58:39.840 the rest of us are just shaking our heads in disgust going are you people really that stupid 1.00

00:58:46.240 that you're sitting there applauding the advent of fascism in canada 1.00

00:58:50.680 because that's exactly what this is and we need to get the hell out of it

00:58:54.920 So, there's actually some good news here, and I'm sorry if I was a bit doom and woom.

00:59:05.920 But anyway, we're very proud to announce, and there's copies of it for sale, they might

00:59:11.860 all be gone by now, but anyway, APP, this is available online for free, it's called

00:59:17.200 The Value of Freedom, a draft, fully-costed fiscal plan for an independent Alberta.

00:59:24.920 I would urge all of you to download it. It's at app.com, and I would urge all of you to

00:59:32.020 read it, because it sets out a picture of a very, very bright future for Alberta the

00:59:38.900 day that we get the hell out of Canada. Specifically, what everybody needs to internalize is that

00:59:46.660 Albertans, right, on top of the financial taxes that we pay and everything else, we

00:59:52.480 send $70 billion a year to Ottawa in federal taxes, CPP, and UI, of which we get less than

01:00:01.040 30 back.

01:00:02.320 It's closer to 20 than 30.

01:00:04.200 So there's this massive pile of money that goes out every year, right?

01:00:09.040 Last year, we were running a deficit budget.

01:00:11.500 every year Quebec runs surplus budgets

01:00:14.000 because Alberta sends

01:00:15.700 15 billion dollars a year

01:00:17.760 roughly to Quebec every

01:00:19.740 year and then Ontario gets money

01:00:21.780 from Alberta, the Maritimes get money from

01:00:23.720 Alberta, the only provinces that don't get

01:00:25.760 money from Alberta are BC

01:00:27.640 and Saskatchewan who coincidentally

01:00:29.860 all voted Conservative in the last election

01:00:31.620 right, all the

01:00:33.640 have not provinces or parasite provinces

01:00:35.820 as I like to call them because they're not really

01:00:37.680 have not

01:00:38.240 You know, all voted liberal for the simple reason that they literally have a culture of parasitism

01:00:48.840 where they're quite happy to live off of the backs of everybody in this room

01:00:53.040 and every hard-working Albertan in this province.

01:00:58.620 I mean, Quebec has massive gas resources that it refuses to develop

01:01:03.160 because they'd rather have our money.

01:01:04.600 They 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,

01:01:34.600 yeah well there's 10 million dollars in water royalty but all of the billions and billions and

01:01:39.720 billions of dollars that they make through hydro profits oh well that's in a crown corporation

01:01:44.780 that's all exempt from equalization we're poor we're have not provinces please give us more

01:01:51.260 of alberta's money i mean that's how this country is set up from start to finish and this is what

01:01:56.760 we 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

01:02:12.600 is, you know, one point higher than the NATO right now, with a billion and a half dollars

01:02:17.160 in startup costs, have a department of external affairs, you know, that's costed, a department

01:02:22.220 of Immigration and Deportation,

01:02:28.720 customing the border control,

01:02:31.280 trivially able to spend on Indigenous people in this province

01:02:33.900 and lift them out of the disgusting levels of poverty

01:02:36.280 that Canada's custom has.

01:02:39.920 Through constitutionalized resource revenue sharing,

01:02:43.040 which will give them a stake in resource development

01:02:45.120 in this province, right?

01:02:47.620 After doing all of that, right,

01:02:50.100 This document states in year one that we are going to have between a $29 to $48 billion a year fiscal capacity surplus.

01:03:04.640 And 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.

01:03:14.100 because as we're asking, we call it a draft fiscal plan

01:03:18.260 because there's actually a link in the document

01:03:22.160 and on the APP website for all of you

01:03:24.340 to provide your input on the document.

01:03:26.520 And we're picking up changes and suggestions

01:03:28.620 from our fellow Albertans as we go

01:03:30.520 with regard to the document.

01:03:32.160 But one of the changes that we have to pick up

01:03:34.700 is when we drafted this document

01:03:36.760 and we put a pin in it for publication,

01:03:39.980 it was based on the 2024 budgetary data

01:03:43.000 that showed Alberta with a $6.5 billion deficit.

01:03:47.940 This document has been published,

01:03:49.960 the new Alberta figures have come out,

01:03:52.240 and this year posted an $8.5 billion surplus.

01:03:56.580 So what that means is when people say,

01:03:58.780 oh, this document is quiet in the sky,

01:04:00.920 and it's too good to be true, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:04:03.780 Keep in mind, we're light on our fiscal capacity surplus,

01:04:07.440 $15 billion.

01:04:08.380 dollars the other thing that i want people to keep in mind is you know one of the things that

01:04:17.660 comes up all the time it's like well if we leave canada are we going to lose our pensions no you're

01:04:23.260 not going to lose your pensions cpp is a legal right but we've already we've already got because

01:04:29.800 everybody you know like there are words i call them the forces of evil but the liberals and

01:04:33.840 party and the rest of them, you know, are running around spreading lies to people in

01:04:38.480 this province saying, oh, if you vote for independence, you're going to lose your pension.

01:04:42.280 You're not going to lose your pension any more than if you lived in Costa Rica or if

01:04:46.680 you lived in California or if you lived in Florida or Spain or Portugal or wherever.

01:04:51.880 Your CPP is a legal right and the Canadian government has an obligation to pay you wherever

01:04:57.960 you are in the world.

01:05:00.180 Okay?

01:05:00.660 The 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?

01:05:17.720 the commonwealth of alberta could easily afford to cut pension contribution amounts in half

01:05:26.640 and double the amount of pension being paid to alberta seniors which as far as i'm concerned

01:05:32.780 is their right for contributing to the development of this product

01:05:35.420 All 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.

01:05:59.540 Even if only half of that fund came back,

01:06:02.300 and I'll speak to this because this is more his area of expertise,

01:06:05.280 if only half of that fund came back,

01:06:07.840 the first year would generate something like $30 billion in revenue or interest.

01:06:14.300 And literally within a very short period of time,

01:06:17.580 there would be enough pension money there just in that fund alone

01:06:20.460 without even touching the fiscal capacity surplus

01:06:23.860 to double the CPP payments, OAS payments, and GIS payments

01:06:28.860 to every senior in the province of Alberta without breaking his swag.

01:06:33.180 So that's what a free and independent Alberta looks like. 1.00

01:06:37.340 You know, we can slash university tuitions, you know, workers.

01:06:40.700 I mean, all of these things are possible.

01:06:42.400 All of these things are mentioned and talked about in this document,

01:06:45.520 the value of freedom.

01:06:47.200 And what I say in this document, and that's how I want to summarize it,

01:06:50.700 is that the value of freedom is priceless.

01:06:53.860 And again, and I want everybody, every time you hear Daniel Smith got her little pom-poms and go,

01:07:04.720 Oh, Doug Ford's going to give you a pipeline, or somebody's going to give me this, and somebody's going to give me that.

01:07:10.980 Think about the fact that we're going to get all of that anyway, as an independent operator.

01:07:15.860 right so for every new pipeline i have friends that work at tcpl so i know that keystone xl's

01:07:23.400 back on right um you know if carney well that's the big thing if carney isn't lying you know and

01:07:29.620 again how do you know mark carney's lying his lips are moving right so i don't know if we can count

01:07:34.760 on a pipeline to bc but let's think we can get one and then we know for a fact because as dennis

01:07:39.780 alluded you know he and i went down to the u.s and met with some very senior level people within

01:07:44.600 the present U.S. administration, the day Alberta declares its independence, we're going to

01:07:49.380 have the shortest free trade agreement ever in the history of the world between the United

01:07:54.020 States of America.

01:07:55.240 The agreement will be less than one page, and you've got to leave room for signatures

01:08:00.020 on it, and it is simply going to say there will be no tariffs on any goods and services

01:08:05.640 on either side of the Alberta-U.S. border.

01:08:08.480 That will be the entire trade agreement of the United States of America, between free and independent Alberta and the United States of America.

01:08:17.520 So what I want everybody to take away from this is to please download this document at app.com.

01:08:24.100 It's free.

01:08:24.960 Please read it, internalize it, and more importantly, share it with all of your friends.

01:08:30.460 Anybody that doubts what we're saying, send them a copy of the document.

01:08:34.280 We challenge them to challenge the number.

01:08:38.480 Because 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.

01:08:51.960 And 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.

01:09:08.480 The other thing I would like everybody in this room to do

01:09:12.380 is when you download this document,

01:09:14.620 please email a copy of it to your MLA, right?

01:09:18.160 Email a copy of it to your nearest cabinet minister.

01:09:21.400 Email a copy of it to Danielle Smith.

01:09:23.720 We've sent copies of it to her.

01:09:25.180 We're not sure she's read it because she hasn't said a word about it, right?

01:09:29.880 And my challenge to them, and this will be my final point,

01:09:33.320 and I'd like everybody to internalize.

01:09:35.060 I'll throw a little bit of law at you, right?

01:09:37.740 Under Canadian law, from a case called Frame v. Smith, right, from the Supreme Court of Canada,

01:09:42.760 the standard of a fiduciary in Canadian law is a reasonably prudent person of business managing their own affairs.

01:09:51.800 And my challenge for every MLA, every cabinet minister, and our elected premier,

01:09:57.860 is once you read this document and understand how much better off Albertans are outside of Canada than in it,

01:10:06.340 How 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?

01:10:18.260 So 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.

01:10:26.920 Thank you very much.

01:10:36.340 So how many of you are so happy that Jeff Rath is on our team?

01:10:46.300 Thank you, Jeff, for all your hard work.

01:10:48.600 Truly appreciate it.

01:10:50.260 I know you look like you're hurting here tonight, so get that foot out.

01:10:56.000 Our last speaker for the evening is Mitch Sylvester.

01:11:00.120 Mitch is the owner-operator of Sylvester Sporting Goods,

01:11:04.340 a well-established business in Bonneville since 1989.

01:11:09.340 Mitch is actively involved in political advocacy.

01:11:13.340 He chairs the First Alberta Pension Plan Initiative

01:11:17.340 and is the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project.

01:11:21.340 Is your wife going to see you?

01:11:25.340 Mitch is an advocate of people and speaks with honesty and integrity.

01:11:29.340 Please welcome Mitch Sylvester.

01:11:34.340 Thank you.

01:11:44.000 Yeah, okay, so this is the hardest job in the evening.

01:11:48.080 It takes money to run this program, and we're going to ask you all to kindly donate if you can to us.

01:11:54.220 And we're going to use that money to reach the kids.

01:11:57.580 This is what we're going to do with that money.

01:11:59.000 Honest 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?

01:12:20.000 honest to God three to four times a day on a lot of days every week and here's

01:12:27.920 problem most of them are customers so we give a lot of money to all the projects

01:12:35.780 every minor hockey tournament everything that goes on so I can't I totally

01:12:41.780 have to reach my pocket again so just that's the deal okay so here's what we

01:12:47.540 Now, we're being abused.

01:12:51.860 So I don't understand that.

01:12:52.820 Once you understand that, it becomes fairly simple.

01:12:55.860 Who's abusing us?

01:12:57.860 Is Canada abusing us?

01:12:59.560 Or is Mr. Trudeau and his group,

01:13:02.080 or Mrs. Carney and his group of people,

01:13:03.600 who's abusing us?

01:13:04.740 It's them.

01:13:06.620 And who are they?

01:13:09.340 This isn't just a Canadian thing.

01:13:12.080 This isn't an Australian thing, a UK thing,

01:13:15.100 a European thing.

01:13:16.660 This is the global elites that are abusing us.

01:13:20.340 These are the same people that have been

01:13:22.060 colonizing people since day one.

01:13:26.700 So my job here tonight will be to summarize this

01:13:31.060 because we've got two groups of people in a room.

01:13:33.580 We've got people that are 100% convinced

01:13:35.540 that this is the path, and we have people

01:13:38.620 that are not sure.

01:13:41.100 So by the time we leave here tonight,

01:13:42.980 I want everybody to be sure that this is the path.

01:13:46.660 so and for those of you to start for those of you that don't understand what we need to do to win

01:13:52.340 i absolutely know that so i'm sharing with you we need to get more people it's very simple

01:14:00.900 how we're going to win this is with 1.6 1.7 million votes

01:14:06.340 we have 250 000 pledges so everybody needs to get six people

01:14:10.900 It's simple, right? Everybody gets six people we win. So Mr. Carney has taken

01:14:28.060 carbon tax away from us, right? But he instituted a federal industrial carbon

01:14:34.260 pricing scheme and the Premier of Alberta said we're not going to pay that. So

01:14:41.820 Danielle's got a list of demands and already they're fighting. So the odds are

01:14:48.780 that this isn't going to get resolved very easily. So what happened on April 28th?

01:14:53.820 On April 28th we lost an election. A very sad day for me because this put me to

01:15:00.120 work sent me all over the province i was very depressed for a day or two i thought and rightfully

01:15:09.000 so i believe that we've never had another chance to win another federal election from that day

01:15:12.840 forward and does anybody in the room agree with that and so what we to do

01:15:22.440 rather accept the terms of the agreement or we do something about it and here's the thing

01:15:30.120 We cannot any longer depend on politicians to save us.

01:15:38.120 So what we must do for ourselves is absolutely commit to the program.

01:15:45.120 The way I look at this is this is going to be a year of hard work.

01:15:48.120 They're going to approve the motion, our question, and if they don't approve the question, then we've got more hard work.

01:15:54.120 But they're going to try and muddy the water. How hard are they going to fight us on this?

01:15:59.120 I was talking to political people in the UCP today, they wouldn't be

01:16:05.720 surprised if the federal government threw between $50 to $100 million at this.

01:16:10.120 They're going to advertise in theaters, they're going to tell us how bad this is going to be, and all the rest of it.

01:16:15.620 And my job tonight is to make sure you understand that this is not going to be

01:16:19.580 bad for you. And I'm going to share, I'm going to ask you a question. Just say for

01:16:24.800 example that this turns out to be a really bad deal for us do you think they'd take us back

01:16:31.840 i just want to know do you think they'd take us back if we said you know what

01:16:41.080 we want to come back probably three to four hundred people i would say so as far as i'm concerned we

01:16:49.720 have nothing to lose

01:16:50.900 all boys have kind of given you the straight facts on that so I just want you to understand

01:17:04.380 this this is an emergency as whether or not you want to acknowledge this it doesn't change the

01:17:10.700 fact that this is an emergency and one of the ways that we're going to fix this and I'm just

01:17:16.780 to take a step further and go into another room here. I'm going to digress a bit. What if we win

01:17:24.340 and the UCP says, you know what, we're not going to allow that to go. We're not going to do anything

01:17:31.280 about it. So what would we do then? So I'm going to share something with you that I'd really like

01:17:37.360 you to do now to take care of that. We have to talk to power. We cannot expect to get any results

01:17:46.440 if we don't talk to the government.

01:17:48.580 I organized in my very early political days,

01:17:52.820 which are only, I've only been political for four years.

01:17:56.160 I didn't care about politics before that,

01:17:59.080 so any of you that were there, I understand and I forgive you.

01:18:02.560 But the whole thing that it was is that I didn't know the left and the right.

01:18:05.520 I didn't care.

01:18:06.580 I was a very busy person.

01:18:08.560 I lived out of, I skied in the winter.

01:18:11.860 I fished in the spring.

01:18:13.240 I laked in the summer.

01:18:14.440 I hunted in the fall.

01:18:15.940 and 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.

01:18:23.940 But now I see the abuse. I saw the abuse right off the bat. I saw it early.

01:18:29.940 And we were organizing, I was organizing street rallies, and I've organized an event like this every month for three years in Bonneville, myself.

01:18:37.940 And with my UCP board now, that helped me out a tremendous amount.

01:18:41.940 But 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.

01:18:59.940 What 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.

01:19:09.940 And the reason we do that is because we want to talk to government.

01:19:14.940 Because I learned a long time ago when I was organizing rallies that if you're talking to yourself, you're not accomplishing anything.

01:19:23.940 You have to talk to power. Because we're talking inside a room and we're talking to like-minded people.

01:19:28.940 But 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.

01:19:52.520 because we absolutely have to participate in our democracy if we want

01:19:56.960 to win this because they have to be afraid to not put this referendum

01:20:03.240 result at the right place so that we can succeed on leaving as they can choose

01:20:09.920 not to and if they have no fear of consequence I suggest to you that they

01:20:17.020 may not do it so every morning we get up and we think about okay well what's

01:20:21.620 going to happen or how are they going to attack us because we totally understand

01:20:24.920 they're going to and the other thing we say is that if we do all this work what

01:20:28.400 if they don't do anything about it so get involved with your CAs get on CA

01:20:33.680 boards and attend the AGM of the party that's in power so that makes this

01:20:38.360 non-partisan I don't care which party's in power we have to be there and how we

01:20:43.940 fired Jason Kinney was a very simple process I'll just go through that in a

01:20:48.260 minute for you. This is what we did. We have 22 CA boards put the identical

01:20:53.440 motion to the provincial board and the provincial board declared a special

01:20:59.120 general meeting and called the leadership review for Mr. Kenney which he did not win.

01:21:03.760 So that's how we got rid of Mr. Kenney. So that can be done but we have to have

01:21:10.900 people like you on CA boards that will allow us to all have the same motions

01:21:17.660 so that we can call a special general meeting so that if we have an issue then you can call a

01:21:23.420 special general meeting on any issue including this one so if the government says we're not going to

01:21:31.020 do anything about a winning referendum vote we can hurt them we can get them out of power

01:21:37.980 we can change the premier at that point we can change the provincial board

01:21:42.140 So, 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.

01:22:03.400 Alright, we're going to go over the zillion points here.

01:22:09.400 We're talking about those people that are running our federal government.

01:22:14.400 They had, according to Mr. Platt, in the neighborhood of 80 to 82 ethics violations, which are our crimes.

01:22:21.400 And the one thing that's the most important thing that you have to understand, in case you're not convinced,

01:22:28.400 is that they were not convicted for any of those crimes.

01:22:32.400 So the leader of our country is like a king. He has absolutely no consequences

01:22:40.080 to anything that they do. Now if that is actually the case, and it is, is it

01:22:46.160 possible for us to change anything? That is the problem right there. The problem

01:22:54.240 is is that these people are treated like royalty, they put themselves in that

01:22:58.740 position, with their light royalty, they have absolutely no consequences. Whereas

01:23:03.540 you and I, if we stole any money, anything close to what they did, we would be put

01:23:08.700 in jail. And in order for us to have a republic or have a democracy, anything

01:23:17.520 moving forward, we can't have our leaders that are not held accountable for

01:23:22.680 anything that they do or everything that they do. So it's up to us to make sure

01:23:28.380 that in our new system, after we vote this out, that we don't allow this Westminster system back

01:23:35.660 into government. We're going to do this very much the same. It's all about money. They want to take

01:23:45.100 all of our money. And before we're done here, you're going to understand that that's actually

01:23:48.580 the case. We are a colony. We are being abused by these people. Their attitude is, screw the West,

01:23:56.080 we'll take the rest and that pretty much sums it up. Our attitude of course

01:23:59.500 conversely in the back was let's let those Eastern bastards face in the dark 1.00

01:24:02.500 and however we could do that should we choose to do that and that would be 0.99

01:24:06.700 leverage moving forward right because if we wanted to shut the pipeline because

01:24:10.960 like Jeff alluded to their oil comes from Alberta but it goes through the US so we

01:24:16.240 can shut that pipeline down at some point it would give us some leverage to get

01:24:20.380 whatever we need whatever we thought was required okay so we're going to go

01:24:23.920 through these because visuals are sometimes better for some people, so if

01:24:27.100 you're going to be talking to other people, you can remember that we only

01:24:30.760 have two Supreme Court justices in all of Western Canada. Quebec has three, Ontario

01:24:37.040 has three, and Maritimes have one. And all of these Supreme Court justices have to be

01:24:43.440 valuable. So where do you think it's going to come from, originally? Okay. The Bertrands have half of our population and 55

01:24:54.660 representation. If that was not the case, we would have won the last federal election. So the

01:24:59.940 federation is working exactly the way they want it to work. It's not an accident. This is

01:25:06.120 absolutely working the way they want it to work. Two of all points, three-quarters of the Senate. The Senate is the

01:25:12.080 regular is the group of people that overlook what they do in Parliament if

01:25:17.320 they think that it's not reasonable or they want to change it, they can stop that

01:25:20.240 legislation from going through, but they're all liberals. And here's the

01:25:26.120 distribution. We'll go quickly. The Maritimes have 24 seats. They have 30 seats.

01:25:35.000 There you go. And we have six. And we have twice the population. So decide whether

01:25:41.420 that's fair or not, but that's the way it's designed. Our next contribution to

01:25:48.320 Ottawa is Alberta being abused. Look at the graph. $244 billion, nobody else is

01:25:55.220 close. That's the money that they take from Alberta. $46 billion for BC. Ontario, the

01:26:01.080 largest economy in Canada, $41 billion. Everybody else is a taker. And Quebec is

01:26:07.660 the King of Tickers at the very end. 327 million in that period of time. So when

01:26:15.200 you see the visuals, it makes it a lot easier to understand the depth of

01:26:20.680 corruption that's happening and how badly they're treating Alberta, right?

01:26:29.580 Standard attention, Jeff kind of went through it, so just understand this. We

01:26:34.960 contribute nine, we pay nine, and our seniors collect six. The reason we pay

01:26:41.360 nine is because we work harder. We work more. So for that very reason we work

01:26:49.060 more hours, we make more money, so we contribute more to CPP. Right? Simple.

01:26:54.040 Except that debt overage is supposed to go into a fund for us and we should be

01:27:02.260 to call that back at any time and had the premier done that two years ago when

01:27:06.820 we started down this path when we asked her to do it we would probably have it

01:27:10.000 back here by now and we wouldn't have to worry about them using that as a scare

01:27:14.380 tactic or leverage for us not to leave Canada. But however as it sits right now

01:27:22.200 we over contribute and she hasn't called it back and the LifeWorks report says

01:27:26.920 they 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.

01:27:37.920 So whatever that is, it's going to be around $400 billion is what they owe us now.

01:27:41.920 Okay, so just what could we possibly do with a $400 billion asset?

01:27:49.920 Understand that we're in debt, $100 billion here.

01:27:55.840 That we're in debt, we have $25, $26 billion

01:27:58.200 in heritage trust fund.

01:27:59.680 That's where we are.

01:28:01.460 All right, equalization payments, don't minimize that.

01:28:05.040 As far as I report, that money would be all ours.

01:28:07.920 That's $13.6 billion this year,

01:28:11.600 $13.3 billion in the last year.

01:28:14.060 Again, jump over to the fact that they don't put

01:28:18.160 everything on their balance sheet so that they can collect all that money from Alberta

01:28:21.920 and everybody understands what's happening and they allow that to happen.

01:28:26.080 That's the Quebec's staying in Canada plan, we're going to pay them to stay, that's what that is.

01:28:32.480 No matter how you slice it, that's what that is.

01:28:35.600 So they don't put Hydro-Quebec in their balance sheet and that's the way the street would be the equivalent of us

01:28:41.040 not putting our oil industry in there.

01:28:44.240 Okay, so we're talking about freedom of the press.

01:28:46.580 I'm gonna talk to you about freedom of the press here.

01:28:49.000 The fact that this wasn't on the front page

01:28:50.700 of every newspaper in Canada explains to you,

01:28:53.100 for two months before the election,

01:28:54.900 explains to you where our press is actually at.

01:28:58.820 Right?

01:29:00.040 This is telling us exactly that,

01:29:02.800 ladies and gentlemen, you cannot change,

01:29:06.060 you look at that, that is communism.

01:29:09.740 You know what they call it now?

01:29:10.700 Managerial politics.

01:29:13.000 What?

01:29:13.700 Material politics is what we're calling that.

01:29:17.660 They changed the word so it doesn't sound so harsh.

01:29:20.380 Communism is harsh.

01:29:22.440 Communism is very harsh.

01:29:24.020 That is flat out Marxism.

01:29:26.700 There's no other way to put that.

01:29:28.480 Jeff went through all the stuff about the,

01:29:30.160 do you know what technocratic dictatorship is?

01:29:33.700 It's when big business is the dictator of the country,

01:29:38.740 not the elected people.

01:29:41.240 Technocrats are big business people.

01:29:43.020 We're talking about bankers, we're talking about oil companies, we're talking about pharmaceutical companies.

01:29:47.460 Then we call the decisions for us, and then we pretend that when we vote, that our vote makes a difference.

01:29:56.560 Right?

01:29:57.940 So do you want to change that?

01:30:04.280 And this is not a new phenomenon.

01:30:06.480 This is something that's been going on since Thomas Jefferson.

01:30:08.780 He said I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies because they control the money.

01:30:15.780 Absolutely. And why do people fight worse? Because they covet what the neighbor has and they want to take it from them.

01:30:24.780 And if you control the money, then you already have the money, which is what they want.

01:30:30.780 So why do they have to control the people when they have all the money that they want? 0.53

01:30:36.780 And 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.

01:31:02.640 It's a crime in Canada, up until now, to have a business that profits from government activity.

01:31:09.200 It also was a crime, up until, before 2018, for the press not to tell the truth.

01:31:16.000 And then it will change the law.

01:31:18.640 So that they can remind you.

01:31:20.640 They can control the information.

01:31:22.640 What's that called in a communist society?

01:31:25.640 From our Canada.

01:31:26.640 From our Canada.

01:31:27.640 So what happens when they control the message?

01:31:30.540 For us adults that have been critical thinkers for a long enough time that you're actually

01:31:35.340 sitting in this room, so you probably understand some of that, you know, you could actually

01:31:39.800 sit through the wheat from the chaff, but what about the kids?

01:31:44.760 What happens to the children that are given all that information for one place?

01:31:49.220 So it's going to make it a lot easier to control them moving forward if they don't have to

01:31:53.440 convince them that it could be any better.

01:31:55.140 Now, I'm going to share this with you, that's one of the only good things about getting

01:31:58.480 old is you have perspective. When I was growing up as a 20 or 21 year old, you could buy a house

01:32:06.320 when you left school. And a lot of people that I know did. And back in those days, I know this

01:32:12.960 isn't funny, but every year a couple three girls in high school got pregnant and they got married 1.00

01:32:19.040 and they bought a house. And that was literally the way it was. And it wasn't even unusual. Nobody

01:32:24.320 said oh my god look at those kids are my houses what do you think the odds of a kid today could

01:32:28.400 buy a house right out of high school and not only that i have friends that did that very same thing

01:32:40.240 that are married to this day and he worked and she stayed home and raised the babies

01:32:46.880 and that was you know 50 years ago when you could actually buy a house one of the ladies 1.00

01:32:53.600 could 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.

01:33:20.600 You 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.

01:33:39.600 That's what we're trying to talk about.

01:33:44.600 So what's at stake, what's at stake is the richest piece of real estate in the world, bar none.

01:33:50.600 And we have to be naive to believe that the rest of the world doesn't cut what we have here in Alberta.

01:33:58.600 And I mean, we're going to go through this in a minute, like step by step, and understand that,

01:34:03.600 but what we have here is basically unique in the world.

01:34:07.600 And 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.

01:34:21.720 yeah yeah yeah when i became premier i thought i would fix everything in six or seven months

01:34:28.200 at that level what does that mean but everything is broken so the premium albera says she can't

01:34:35.080 fix anything so what that means to me is that's how corrupt it is that's all it means because if

01:34:41.960 she cannot fix it where she's sitting way up there what's the problem the problem is that your

01:34:48.600 are running the whole thing. That's the problem. So that is the deep state by

01:34:55.600 extension. No matter how you slice that, that's a deep state. The deep state is all

01:35:00.060 those people out there that are calling the shots. There's no fixing that. The

01:35:06.240 system is broken. Pollyoff said the same thing. Canada's broken. Trump said the

01:35:11.460 same thing. Like a Marine and me did say that the whole system is completely

01:35:14.840 broken. So in order for her to fix that system, we have to get out of it and literally reboot it, change it off.

01:35:30.840 COVID 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.

01:35:36.840 They wanted to see how far they could push us. In COVID, they pushed us a long ways.

01:35:40.840 Right, 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.

01:35:52.840 Dennis 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.

01:36:04.840 Where's the reach? Where's the outrage? How can we allow this? And we're doing it openly.

01:36:13.840 We're doing it right in front of us. And they don't. You ever see the Liberals Action

01:36:19.840 Question in the last 10 years? How'd that work? C-293. Now here's what they're doing.

01:36:26.840 They're making laws so that in the future they can commit more crimes.

01:36:31.840 Now if you think that sounds out there, C-293 says, in the next emergency the

01:36:38.020 federal government will be able to seize your land and your herd. How does that 0.97

01:36:45.700 work? And what's the purpose of it? The purpose of it is, like Dennis said, hollow

01:36:51.700 out the middle class to make you poorer and then richer. And, I don't know if 0.92

01:36:57.760 if you're aware, but the cost of fertilizers doubled,

01:37:00.620 cost of buying equipment's up 60%,

01:37:03.100 cost of everything.

01:37:04.120 A lot of these big producers are on the thin line.

01:37:09.120 I have a friend that farmed a lot of acres last year,

01:37:12.400 came to the store, he made $12,000 last year,

01:37:14.880 and he has millions and millions of dollars worth of equipment

01:37:17.480 and he farmed that an only quarter's length,

01:37:19.840 30 or 40 quarters length, so just saying.

01:37:24.040 China hits Canada with retaliatory tariffs

01:37:26.320 canola oil and peas after we imposed a tariff our federal government imposed a tariff on electrical

01:37:33.760 chinese cars that nobody can advise and they totally understand that that's the consequence of 1.00

01:37:40.240 it again to attack our producers danielle said that they're literally sabotaging our industry

01:37:50.080 that comes from her they're sabotaging industry now as canadian as a business person 0.71

01:37:59.760 i would actually ever see the day where the federal government would try to sabotage our

01:38:05.120 own people in our own industry it's those people in 2015 this started let's understand this we're

01:38:14.160 dealing with a group of very bad people and they're not going away on their own

01:38:21.200 and even if we win our referendum we're still going to have a fight on our hands

01:38:27.040 but we have to win the referendum or we don't even have to worry about the fight. We're going to

01:38:32.400 capitulate to that nonsense. Well I was in higher demand every year. These are the bills that affect

01:38:38.640 to Alberta. Again, unfair. Nowhere else in Canada do they try to post off an

01:38:46.060 industry based on policies. Blocking pipelines, tanker bans, in the West, but in the East they bring in half a million

01:38:52.700 barrels 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

01:39:06.680 put up with a bad year or two. So once that money's lost, and that money's invested

01:39:11.180 everywhere else in the world, it's not like it's not been invested.

01:39:18.440 Japan, Greece, and Germany came to Alberta with their hat in hand and asked if we

01:39:26.480 wouldn't sell them natural gas. And we said no. So how many jobs did we lose?

01:39:34.300 tens of thousands of us, trillions of dollars in turnover and assets and

01:39:40.620 something that would have paid us for 40 or 50 years. And they said no it's not in

01:39:46.420 our business plan. Meaning that they didn't want to develop our industry, they want to keep it in the ground.

01:39:55.060 That's very clear what they're doing.

01:39:59.540 Norway came to Alberta years ago, just started an oil patch, 25 years ago or so ago, so they

01:40:08.140 have 1.3 trillion in an oil fund.

01:40:12.060 Alberta has no money in an oil fund, and Alberta's 100 billion dollars in a hole.

01:40:16.720 And guess what I did today?

01:40:18.680 I went to look to see how much oil Alberta produces and how much oil Norway produces.

01:40:26.100 Norway produces 2 million barrels a day.

01:40:29.180 Alberta produces 4.6 million barrels a day,

01:40:32.800 two and a half times more than Norway.

01:40:35.540 And they have $1.3 trillion in an oil fund,

01:40:38.860 and we have nothing.

01:40:42.400 So we produce two and a half times more oil than them,

01:40:47.820 and they have $1 trillion oil fund,

01:40:50.080 and we have nothing.

01:40:52.640 So I wanted to ask you a question.

01:40:55.000 Where the hell did the money go?

01:40:59.180 Right? Just understand how much money that is, you know, so according to that math, we should have double that in an online fund.

01:41:11.180 If we had 1.3 trillion dollars in an online fund, we wouldn't have to pay any number of them.

01:41:18.180 If 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.

01:41:29.180 And 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.

01:41:37.400 And news out yesterday, 80% of Canadians are living paycheck to paycheck.

01:41:44.080 80%.

01:41:45.520 So, ladies and gentlemen, we are on the precipice of a crisis.

01:41:49.980 Because if anything changes or if anything slows down, 80% of Canadians are not going to be able to pay their bills.

01:42:00.980 And the universal basic income is going to come to people and what's the best example of universal basic income in Canada?

01:42:08.980 Welfare.

01:42:10.980 and Jeff alluded to the fact that they live in abject poverty so that's not the

01:42:16.460 answer right just saying all right carbon tax this is a lie this is a big

01:42:25.600 lie let's just call it for what it is okay carbon taxes cost Canadians billions of

01:42:31.080 dollars over five years hurting the economy or reducing CO2 emissions by

01:42:34.140 11.9 gigatons. China emits 11.9 gigatons every day and a half. Five years of restraint, five

01:42:42.780 years of killing Alberta industry, five years of doing all of that and China 1.00

01:42:47.580 produces all that in a day and a half. And climate change, all the fires that you see.

01:42:56.220 The Americans actually sent a letter from the government of Canada telling us to quit setting

01:43:00.300 fires 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.

01:43:11.300 Alright, here's all the taxes we pay. This is the taxes that we're going to lose if we become an independent nation.

01:43:17.300 Okay, just understand this. Carbon tax, personal loan tax, corporate tax, goods and services tax, excise tax, fuel excise tax, all excise duty,

01:43:26.300 duty, tobacco excise duty, cannabis excise duty, customs duties, air traveler

01:43:30.840 security tax, luxury tax, commercial tax, capital gains, land transfer tax,

01:43:34.240 union tax, regulation tax, CPP tax, business tax, estate tax, and bill tax

01:43:42.300 jobs. So this would be about 30% of the pay. I didn't. People say to us,

01:43:56.060 oh, I don't pay that much tax on my income tax.

01:44:00.020 Well, no, you pay it every time to buy something.

01:44:02.600 You pay it when you die,

01:44:04.220 because what happens when you die? 0.53

01:44:06.160 Because when you die,

01:44:07.160 you all of a sudden have this massive asset.

01:44:10.320 And they're telling everybody,

01:44:11.260 all the estate tax is for rich people.

01:44:13.680 But when you die and you have a $600,000 house

01:44:17.080 and a little bit of money in the bank and everything back,

01:44:19.560 and that worth is $700,000 or $800,000,

01:44:21.580 that puts you in the high income bracket.

01:44:24.100 And do you know what the tax is on a state tax?

01:44:26.940 65%.

01:44:30.720 So if you have paid, just for example,

01:44:32.760 if you paid $200,000 for a house worth half a billion dollars,

01:44:37.760 you would pay 65% on the 300.

01:44:40.240 So your kids would not be able to inherit

01:44:42.800 your after-tax wealth.

01:44:45.540 So why do you have that?

01:44:47.380 Because they want to control your wealth,

01:44:48.700 and by controlling your wealth,

01:44:49.700 you can't give it to your kids,

01:44:50.620 so they're going to make it hard for them

01:44:53.220 to accumulate any money and keep them poor.

01:44:56.320 That's it, there's no other reason for it.

01:45:00.020 And then we give the money away to all these other places

01:45:02.480 but not to our seniors.

01:45:04.620 So just right there, I'm mad at that out,

01:45:07.740 but it's about five billion dollars.

01:45:09.940 Our seniors collect, we pay our seniors $6 billion a year.

01:45:14.080 Just by not doing that foreign aid,

01:45:15.620 we can double their take and not affect any of that.

01:45:18.840 Right?

01:45:19.900 And our servicemen, all the people that are in the military,

01:45:22.540 All the rest of that kind of stuff.

01:45:23.540 And look at Iraq at the bottom. 0.84

01:45:26.080 Iraq is producing just as much oil as Almerna.

01:45:28.780 Look at them sitting over there with a $1 billion

01:45:30.640 tax contribution from Canada.

01:45:32.660 And I'm going to share something with you.

01:45:35.380 This is a money laundering scheme.

01:45:38.040 Like that or don't like it, if you go to the government of Iraq

01:45:43.080 and you say to them, I'm going to give you a $1.04 billion

01:45:46.840 check, I want $609 back, what are the odds

01:45:50.720 they would say yes. A hundred percent. Absolutely a hundred percent. And the war in Afghanistan

01:45:58.920 was the biggest money laundering, it's world famous, in the history of the world. And that's

01:46:04.320 why they dumped all that product into the ocean, because they didn't want it to be counted.

01:46:10.160 So when they left Afghanistan, you notice they left everything there. It was a big deal.

01:46:14.480 Obama left all that stuff in Afghanistan. And the Americans were saying, oh, you can't

01:46:18.040 all that stuff there. Well they didn't want it counted. They didn't want it counted. That's why

01:46:22.040 they left it there. You can fly a helicopter over the border. You don't have to leave it there.

01:46:26.040 Right? Or a boat. You can take it over the border as well.

01:46:30.040 Alright, here's the rest of this. An audit shows

01:46:34.040 $187 billion worth of liberal infrastructure spending, kind of 20,000

01:46:38.040 missing projects. That means they're stealing from us.

01:46:42.040 And after nobody's going to jail for that. And the reason

01:46:46.040 reason they're not going to jail for that is because they're above the law. And the

01:46:50.080 fact that they're above the law means that we can't negotiate with them and we have to leave.

01:46:53.240 That's it.

01:46:59.240 And this is the other thing that they do when they want to control you. They take your firearms away.

01:47:05.240 Except Doug Ford that his house broken into. Now he wants to be allowed to shoot criminals who went into his house.

01:47:12.240 He said it's a good idea to have a gun. 0.92

01:47:17.240 However, from all political power comes to the barrel of a gun.

01:47:20.240 The Communist Party must command all the guns, that way no guns can ever be used to command the party.

01:47:25.240 And that is the reason why they won't take your guns.

01:47:29.240 The average Canadian gun owner is four times less likely to murder somebody than the average Canadian citizen.

01:47:36.240 So that being said, they're not taking your guns away to keep you safe.

01:47:41.240 If 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.

01:48:01.000 A 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.

01:48:11.240 so yeah a couple sentences on immigration

01:48:21.560 they're bringing people here to change our politics yeah that's what they're doing

01:48:28.440 i'm okay with immigration i'm okay with controlled immigration i'm not okay with

01:48:33.080 uncontrolled immigration and i'm not okay with immigration that brings people through here so 1.00

01:48:38.360 so that they can change our politics and that we can never win another election.

01:48:46.360 Did you notice we got tariffs? 35% by the Americans today? Yesterday? Do you know why?

01:48:52.360 Because we're the biggest producer of fentanyl and illegal fentanyl in the world.

01:48:57.360 In Valley View they found 6,700 kilograms, kilograms of fentanyl making material in a lab there.

01:49:05.360 How much fentanyl do you think you can make with, what is that, 7-tonne chemical?

01:49:11.360 And fentanyl was like the size of a grain of salt, right?

01:49:18.360 He 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.

01:49:25.360 And anything that you counter-tariff us, we're going to add to the top of our tariff.

01:49:31.360 So they're not playing around with that, they're going to stop that.

01:49:34.360 we inspect one percent of the C-cams that come over from China and that

01:49:40.600 fentanyl stuff comes over from China. So just so you know. And that's about the

01:49:46.660 refugees. The refugees, if there's five million work visas that are going to expire in

01:49:52.600 Canada this year and they've self-admitted that they don't know where

01:49:56.360 these 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

01:50:09.320 Canadian earns $63,000 to pay 20% tax on that. So tell me how much sense does that make?

01:50:15.560 The reason they're doing that is to make a change of power politics. 0.88

01:50:21.760 I'm glad I'm going to leave you. I want to see you at the AGM. I will be there.

01:50:31.760 All right, we're going to have a Q&A now, and if anybody has any questions, come on up.

01:50:41.160 We'll be glad to answer them.

01:50:45.160 Rich, thank you for your dedication to the people of this community.

01:51:01.760 People that want to ask questions, if you can line up here and come to the front.

01:51:07.480 Could you try and keep it concise, because we want to get to as many as we can.

01:51:19.920 I'm curious about the development of data management centers and carbon capture facilities.

01:51:27.820 Currently it appears Daniel Smith supports the development of these.

01:51:33.820 I'm curious to know where you stand on these issues and what you think of Daniel's supporting them.

01:51:41.820 Okay, well I'm totally against carbon capture.

01:51:44.820 Jeff is totally against carbon capture. I could speak for him for the one time that I've had the opportunity to do that.

01:51:49.820 So carbon capture is a joke. I've talked to Synovus. I've had meetings with Synovus.

01:51:55.820 is coming to Bonnyville where I live and they wanted my support on it and I really laughed at them.

01:52:00.540 I said, come on. We're going to suck CO2 out of the air and we're going to stick it in the ground

01:52:06.440 and we're going to be able to measure that. Can we measure that? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

01:52:10.900 We ought to start laughing at this kind of stuff just so they understand that we understand how stupid it is. 1.00

01:52:19.040 And as far as AI and producing that, you know what? I know the answer to that. 1.00

01:52:23.840 I 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.

01:52:32.400 I mean, they have a tremendous amount of power, and so they're going to do that.

01:52:37.060 I don't know what Danielle's position is on that, but I haven't studied it, and I don't care. Dennis, maybe.

01:52:42.060 to attempt at, you know, being one of the leaders of the development of information.

01:52:53.740 You know, I support that, but there's going to be an increased electrical requirement for that, that's for sure.

01:53:00.300 I want to digress for one second. I want to give a shout out to Michael Wagner in the back at the table.

01:53:05.800 Many of you will probably know who he is.

01:53:09.800 Michael has a PhD in political science.

01:53:13.800 He actually has three degrees. The last one's a PhD. He's written several

01:53:17.800 books and I really encourage you to buy at least

01:53:21.800 one or two or maybe all five of them because he absolutely

01:53:25.800 has explained brilliantly what has happened to

01:53:29.800 Alberta within the entire Confederate structure.

01:53:35.800 and before i forget one more thing that i think is very important don't talk separation is like

01:53:45.080 getting your leg amputated right talk about sovereignty independence yeah that's the

01:53:50.760 separation is a negative sovereignty or albert independence is a positive

01:53:55.880 Hi, I didn't, I actually said I've been boning for six years, and I felt it just so quite

01:54:06.060 a day.

01:54:07.240 But anyway, but my question might be too early, but my question is this.

01:54:11.480 If Daniel Smith is not going to join this wagon of independent Alberta, what would happen

01:54:20.100 to her?

01:54:20.720 And when, I believe, we will win in the next election, or in January next year, who will be the leader?

01:54:29.720 We will win!

01:54:31.720 So this is going to come, so I talked to them today for quite a long time.

01:54:40.720 Here's the tip, build a tree and it will get in front of the eggs. 1.00

01:54:46.720 Will the Premier do that?

01:54:48.720 We'll see, but if she doesn't do that, then our option is an SGM.

01:54:55.720 And we pick a new leader.

01:54:57.720 That's the option.

01:54:59.720 And I mean, but, you're going to have to understand that that's not an option that, you know, right now I prefer.

01:55:05.720 I would prefer that she work with us and help us get this over the finish line. 0.96

01:55:08.720 That would be my preference. Because, you know what, we had an SGM and people are afraid to do that again and again and again.

01:55:16.720 People just want to flip leaders out. Because we're seeing that it's not about the leaders, it's about us.

01:55:22.720 And 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. 1.00

01:55:29.720 Excuse me, the Conservatives will be leading independent, sovereign Canada?

01:55:38.720 Well, you know what, back in ancient Greece, they changed their leaders every year. I really like that.

01:55:46.720 Honest to God, I really like that. I would like us to change our leaders every year.

01:55:50.720 Because the reason they changed their leaders every year is because they were afraid of tyranny.

01:55:55.720 And 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.

01:56:12.760 No, 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.

01:56:25.720 How much do we expect to pay for the parks and the army bases in Alberta?

01:56:33.720 We 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.

01:56:42.720 And if you actually took an actuarial accounting of that and applied compound interest to it for all the years that we've been paying,

01:56:50.720 We'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.

01:57:08.720 thank you before you go before you go there's one other thing to this gentleman's question

01:57:20.300 60% of Alberta lands are crown lands but 81% of the crown lands are controlled by the provincial

01:57:27.780 government it's only 19% that are controlled by the federal government

01:57:30.940 Thank 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.

01:57:56.940 Absolutely. 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.

01:58:05.500 During 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.

01:58:18.180 and one of the things that happened to me was jokingly one day i was on a zoom call with a

01:58:22.900 bunch of ahs lawyers and of course they're all making the big show of taking their covid masks

01:58:28.620 off because they've got a virtue signal to everybody of course i walked into our zoom room

01:58:32.500 in my office without a mask on and i said just jokingly i said oh in case anybody's wondering 0.97

01:58:36.300 why i'm not wearing a mask i'm exempt and of course i'm not exempt from stupidity exempt from 0.98

01:58:41.580 virtue signaling exempt from all the other bullshit we had to put up with during covid 0.96

01:58:45.740 The 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?

01:59:02.220 To see whether my doctor had actually written me a COVID mask exemption so they could take his medical license away, okay?

01:59:10.640 That's how corrupt the College of Physicians and Surgeons is.

01:59:13.700 And 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.

01:59:32.800 I 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.

01:59:47.580 They have made their own decision not to take it.

01:59:50.320 So on the basis of the medical doctrine of informed consent, this patient is exempt from having to take a COVID vaccine, period.

01:59:59.080 That 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.

02:00:12.180 So as far as I'm concerned, the College of Physicians is completely corrupt.

02:00:15.880 They'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.

02:00:34.580 They were paid double severance, right, to get rid of them because their values did not align with the values of the college, right?

02:00:42.160 Those people are completely corrupt, and I'm concerned they need to be running out of town on a rail.

02:00:47.560 So thanks for that question.

02:00:49.020 And then with regard to reporting health care, the only comment I want to make with regard to the value of freedom

02:00:55.800 is this is costed on basically maintaining all levels of funding for Alberta health care,

02:01:00.920 so there's not a plan to cut funding, but keep in mind when Alberta becomes a zero income tax jurisdiction

02:01:07.520 within three to five years, we're not going to have any difficulty attracting doctors and nurses

02:01:12.560 and other qualified medical professionals to come and work in Alberta, right?

02:01:17.900 And then with regard to completely gutting AHS and reforming the system in Alberta,

02:01:23.840 I'll turn this over to Dennis.

02:01:27.120 No, that's good.

02:01:28.260 You can see how I would love it if the three of us up here were doing the negotiating

02:01:33.820 with the federal government after we leave.

02:01:35.800 but anyhow if we get to if we consider Alberta Health Services let me take you

02:01:43.420 back to 1995 at that time the population of Alberta was 3.8 million people and

02:01:49.420 there were 5,000 employees working for Alberta Health here today we have 5

02:01:54.880 million people just 1.2 million more and up until very recently because I don't

02:01:59.980 know the number, but a few months ago, the number of employees at Alberta Health Services

02:02:06.900 was, and possibly still is, are you ready for this? 130,000. Okay, think about that. Now,

02:02:16.320 the budget right now is $28 billion for health care. That's one-third of the entire provincial

02:02:24.720 but now um i you remember don masinkowski you know he's probably one of the best federal mps

02:02:33.600 we ever had but he was asked when he retired from federal politics ralph klein asked him if he would

02:02:39.440 do a health report and i drafted the background document to that health report and it was entitled

02:02:45.600 medicare is killing us re-engineering the canadian healthcare system and i can assure you having

02:02:51.360 worked in the system for 32 years the corruption is at every single level and

02:02:57.720 we documented it so and if you think about it if there's fraud waste and

02:03:03.300 abuse in the health care system there's an opportunity not to just improve cost

02:03:08.400 access and quality well actually it is an opportunity to improve quality and

02:03:15.480 access because access is the bigger problem but we can reduce cost and

02:03:20.520 provide far better services once we get control of health care. It can be so much better. How

02:03:28.280 many people here are happy with the health care system right now? You know, has anybody

02:03:32.560 had to wait months to get their care? Years. And years, exactly. It's no wonder that people

02:03:38.540 who can afford it wind up going to the U.S. because they just can't wait. We only have

02:03:42.780 so much time on this earth, right? So this is the problem. And yeah, the health care

02:03:48.120 system is badly in need of reform but if you think about it if health care needs

02:03:52.360 reform what about the other departments that are funding this is only a recent

02:04:01.000 within the last five to seven years right but this has gotten exponentially

02:04:04.800 worse since 2015 okay so just understand that those people are the people that

02:04:10.260 instituted all this and sped up all this nonsense so those are the people that

02:04:15.300 we're trying to get rid of some standards so I came up here with one question but just something

02:04:21.260 I want to have clarified from a previous question regarding Daniel Smith it has been said that she

02:04:27.120 is a federalist but she has also been accused of being a separatist so is she do you see her

02:04:34.720 inside or outside or you're not sure yet where she's going to go I think that I can answer that

02:04:42.000 by saying I'm not sure yet on where she's gonna go

02:04:44.880 because she's told us, here's what's happening.

02:04:48.820 She's reduced the threshold number from 600,000

02:04:52.080 to 173,000 and allowed us to make this process possible.

02:04:55.460 Okay, flat out, without question.

02:04:58.560 So because she did that, we're in a process,

02:05:01.320 we could have a referendum for independence.

02:05:04.640 I'm not saying we couldn't have done it at 600,000,

02:05:07.320 but it would have been a heck of a lot more work.

02:05:10.020 But 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

02:05:18.520 because it's halfway to 1.2 million, which is probably what we would need to win.

02:05:22.520 So we wouldn't have had to do that work, but we would only have to do it once.

02:05:25.520 So, you know, but I mean, as it stands right now, the referendum for independence is an absolute reality based on that.

02:05:32.520 So, 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,

02:05:41.960 I'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.

02:05:50.000 So, 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.

02:05:59.520 Yeah, 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. 0.98

02:06:08.240 But everybody needs to understand that, you know, it's a very, you know, and I think your question sort of encapsulates that.

02:06:15.900 You know, it's a very schizophrenic, you know, approach that she's taken.

02:06:20.240 And they say, oh yeah, I see these people that support independence, these are loyal Albertans, blah, blah, blah. 0.97

02:06:25.580 But 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. 0.81

02:06:45.440 She 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.

02:06:55.900 So 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.

02:07:15.540 And 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.

02:07:27.260 And please, go to the AGM.

02:07:29.400 Because we need to hold our feet to the fire.

02:07:32.180 So thank you.

02:07:34.580 And that's, so that leads to what my question is about, about the referendum question.

02:07:39.940 Thomas Lukasik has put forward a referendum question.

02:07:42.980 where does that fit in this whole thing little tommy you're gonna ask little tommy questions

02:07:48.980 no no we were laughing the other day he actually has now of course he's off on holiday so he isn't

02:07:56.580 busy gathering signatures or organizing to get signatures he actually we heard is now asking

02:08:01.940 elections alberta to please let him have this the the threshold lowered for his question to 177 000

02:08:09.740 because it's obvious that he thinks that he's not going to make the 300,000 signatures

02:08:13.880 that he needs for a policy question.

02:08:15.860 I can tell you it's hard work, right?

02:08:17.900 And you're not going to do it by vacationing with your wife in Hawaii

02:08:20.760 when you should be out gathering signatures.

02:08:23.120 And he's already figured out that he's not going to get the signatures that he needs.

02:08:26.580 So we're not overly worried about his question.

02:08:29.220 Our question is fundamentally different.

02:08:31.260 It completely complies with Section 1, Sub 3 of the Clarity Act.

02:08:36.700 Little Tommy's question is, you know, should Alberta remain in Canada?

02:08:40.600 It's like asking, should Alberta still be called Alberta? 0.97

02:08:44.300 You know, it's a dumb question, and it's a policy question.

02:08:46.520 Ours is different, ours is constitutional, and we're confident that our question will prevail. 0.96

02:08:51.040 And frankly, he doesn't have the organization or the capacity to get the signatures he needs under the old act.

02:08:59.880 Hi, Mitch, you mentioned, like, more you wanted to work on, like, youth outreach,

02:09:05.120 specifically like 18 to 25

02:09:07.160 and I was wondering if part of your

02:09:09.200 plan is like holding seminars

02:09:10.800 on like campuses whether it's

02:09:12.880 oh I see a new volunteer

02:09:15.160 that's awesome

02:09:18.140 yeah we intend to do that

02:09:19.840 and I'll pass the microphone back to Mitch

02:09:22.100 and we're working with people to start putting together

02:09:24.380 stuff for TikTok, Instagram

02:09:25.900 you know we see that a lot of people in that age bracket

02:09:28.520 live online and you know

02:09:30.120 I'm always shocked when I

02:09:31.480 X feed the interactions on my

02:09:34.440 is literally 60% 20 to 29 year olds, 29 to 40 year olds.

02:09:41.440 So that seems to be where that demographic lives.

02:09:44.440 So we're after it.

02:09:45.440 And if you are volunteering, please check in with us afterwards

02:09:48.440 because we'd love to have events organized on campus.

02:09:51.440 Thank you.

02:09:53.440 Thank you for the question.

02:09:59.440 Thank you again.

02:10:01.440 My question is, again, thank you guys very much for your guys' input on everything and helping us out with this information.

02:10:11.520 Money.

02:10:13.040 So, if we're leaving Canada, then we will.

02:10:18.340 Our currency, is it going to be Canadian currency or American currency?

02:10:22.400 We see initially that we're going to be trading in U.S. dollars because the future for Alberta we see is...

02:10:28.400 But 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.

02:10:48.320 So, if I was you, and three days before the referendum, I would buy U.S. dollars.

02:10:58.400 So we don't have to listen to complain about the drop of the Canadian currency if we win.

02:11:03.360 You'll have check box, so just FYI.

02:11:08.200 That's what I'll be doing.

02:11:09.420 So I would suggest that everybody do that.

02:11:14.980 So I'd like to comment on this as well.

02:11:17.400 And I don't know if this will happen, but when Jeff and I were in Washington,

02:11:20.840 One 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?

02:11:38.560 Now, 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.

02:11:47.400 That's right. Thank you very much.

02:11:49.400 And it's going to be dollar for dollar.

02:11:52.960 But, 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.

02:12:00.560 You'd be looking at a 33 to 50 percent overall tax reduction in year one.

02:12:05.580 And by year five, we would be a zero income tax jurisdiction.

02:12:09.140 Let that sink in.

02:12:13.440 I keep hearing you calling it a commonwealth of Alberta.

02:12:17.840 out. So when I hear commonwealth, I think of monarchy. So does that mean we will be beholding

02:12:25.100 to the United Kingdom? No, all commonwealth means is for the common good or for the good

02:12:30.740 of the people. It's a general term that doesn't necessarily apply to the monarchy. I mean,

02:12:35.340 when I hear republic, I think people's republic of China. So, I mean, there's no perfect answer.

02:12:41.480 yeah well no you have commonwealth of virginia commonwealth of kentucky commonwealth of

02:12:47.780 pennsylvania commonwealth of massachusetts right it's not there's nothing nefarious in it and

02:12:52.960 quite frankly the ongoing relationship with the monarchy you know it's going to be a matter for

02:12:57.020 constitutional convention and albertans can vote on it you know whether we want to be you know

02:13:01.440 governed continue to be governed by or promote our lieutenant governor to governor general or

02:13:05.880 or not. I mean, I'm pretty ambivalent

02:13:08.100 on the subject.

02:13:10.160 Oh, and interestingly,

02:13:11.880 there's something people need to internalize. On my birthday

02:13:14.140 this year, it was a hell of a birthday present.

02:13:16.080 27th, 2025,

02:13:18.020 the government of Quebec

02:13:19.660 literally voted to abolish

02:13:22.000 a unanimous resolution

02:13:23.460 of the legislature of Quebec

02:13:25.320 to abolish all ties

02:13:27.820 between the government of Quebec and

02:13:29.840 the British monarchy.

02:13:31.180 So I'd like everybody to think about that,

02:13:33.960 right? Because the

02:13:35.620 Parliament in Ottawa, as we saw

02:13:37.700 from the grand opening of Parliament by

02:13:39.600 His Majesty the King, is His

02:13:41.580 Majesty's Parliament. So I

02:13:43.600 want everybody to consider or think about

02:13:45.640 how the hell it is that we have

02:13:47.380 44 Liberal MPs from Quebec

02:13:49.660 sitting in Parliament

02:13:51.620 supporting Kearney's government, and

02:13:53.400 22 Bloc MPs sitting in Quebec

02:13:55.600 supporting the Bloc Quebecois

02:13:57.620 if Quebec has severed all ties

02:13:59.660 with the British Barnarchy. I don't 0.65

02:14:01.580 think Kearney's Prime Minister anymore.

02:14:03.620 It is just me.

02:14:05.620 Anyway, next question. Thank you.

02:14:09.620 My question is about the Criminal Code of Canada. So are we going to adopt that same code? Are we going to be changing it?

02:14:17.620 We have an interim constitution that we're working on. Obviously there's going to be transitional provisions, right?

02:14:23.620 So we can't all of a sudden on day one of independence have complete anarchy and have no criminal law in Alberta.

02:14:29.620 So, 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.

02:14:45.540 Alright, so I thought because Dennis, you were a physician, right? You were a doctor?

02:14:50.280 Okay, and we're talking about healthcare reforms.

02:14:52.920 The big issue to me is the euthanasia issue.

02:14:55.000 I don't know if a lot of people know, but Carney and Trudeau put together a committee

02:14:59.420 two years ago that's considering legislation to start euthanizing minors, aged 1 to 17,

02:15:06.560 without parental consent.

02:15:07.760 They can force their way into family home and arrest the parents.

02:15:10.660 So that's my question for you guys, is if there's anything regarding the maid issue,

02:15:15.620 you're more likely to die of euthanasia than a car crash in Canada now.

02:15:19.200 If there's anything that you guys have done towards that.

02:15:21.680 All that then speaks to, I'm generally opposed to it on moral grounds.

02:15:25.580 That having been said, I turned to my wife recently and said,

02:15:28.900 you know, if we're going to have MAID in Canada, 0.99

02:15:30.900 every time a pedophile goes to jail,

02:15:32.820 there should be a MAID brochure sitting on the bunk in the prison cell. 0.94

02:15:38.080 For me, that's probably the only good place for it,

02:15:41.320 but I don't know if Dennis wants to comment on that or not.

02:15:44.760 Yeah, I think it's amoral, you know, what's been happening with MAID.

02:15:49.680 I mean, in Canada, we have the highest extinction rate in the world per capita of any other country.

02:16:00.240 I mean, I just think it's uncomfortable.

02:16:03.160 I spent my life trying to keep people alive and to see this occur like this.

02:16:09.640 And really, just because you're depressed, you could request MAID, and there it is.

02:16:15.340 Vets who may be having a little bit of difficulty are offered me without being offered care.

02:16:22.340 You know, this is something, this is part of what I was saying earlier,

02:16:28.280 that, you know, these sorts of values are being shoved down our throat,

02:16:33.500 and we don't ascribe to them, and we need to get out from under it.

02:16:37.160 I'm not sure we can change the rest of the country,

02:16:40.440 but we can sure as heck change what's happening here in Alberta.

02:16:45.340 So 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.

02:17:08.340 Thank you for the question. Very good question. Thank you.

02:17:12.340 Okay, day one. Alberta's summary. What does the legal path look like to get a pipeline to title? 0.82

02:17:23.340 Well, 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.

02:17:31.340 You 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?

02:17:45.360 So 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.

02:17:54.180 And while we're inspecting the train for Vancouver rats, we would then have our customs inspectors go on board

02:18:00.640 and value all the goods being shipped to Ontario and put a 30% through there up on all the goods on the train.

02:18:07.700 And I think you'd find British Columbia's attitude towards an Alberta pipeline with tidewater improving substantially.

02:18:15.360 with that new leverage the other thing is of course one of the big bars to pipelines into

02:18:20.320 the united states of course is our federal government remember you know we had the you

02:18:24.480 know the gibbering shibo was you know basically the minister in charge of pipelines during the

02:18:28.480 last government and of course he wasn't going to be approving uh any u.s pipelines you know we're

02:18:34.120 very confident around the basis of our meetings in washington dc that an independent alberta

02:18:38.860 could immediately have two or three new pipelines into the U.S. out of Alberta,

02:18:44.380 including a pipeline into Montana, through Idaho, Washington State,

02:18:49.560 and to the port of Seattle to get oil out that way to Tidewater if we needed to.

02:18:54.940 The other thing that people forget about, and for whatever reason it's not on Daniel's list,

02:18:59.600 and again, it's another crooked, carny Brookfield corruption scandal,

02:19:03.140 but does anybody here know that during Trudeau's last couple years in office,

02:19:06.740 With a stroke of a pen, he changed the railway tanker car specifications, right?

02:19:13.160 And what that did was it meant that 90% of North American rolling stock on the rails

02:19:19.540 that was capable of transporting Alberta oil to Texas

02:19:22.220 was no longer legally allowed to cross the U.S.-Canadian border

02:19:26.580 because it didn't meet the new Trudeau specification

02:19:29.000 that was obviously given to him by Mark Carney.

02:19:31.780 And, of course, the reason for that is there's only one company in North America

02:19:35.460 that has rail cars that meet that

02:19:37.540 specification, which is Berkshire

02:19:39.500 Hathaway, which is in bed with Brookfield.

02:19:42.220 Right? The only company in

02:19:43.460 North America that

02:19:45.060 manufactures rail cars

02:19:47.320 that meet that specification is

02:19:49.380 Berkshire Hathaway in bed with Brookfield.

02:19:52.100 Right? And of course

02:19:53.360 that in and of itself has restricted

02:19:55.260 Alberta oil leaving

02:19:57.500 the province, and that would change overnight

02:19:59.480 as well. What about international law?

02:20:01.480 Where does that come in? Well, I mean,

02:20:03.480 as far as it goes, I mean, there's the

02:20:05.040 UN Convention on Access for Landlocked Countries and Access to Seaports, that would apply,

02:20:12.040 but I think Alberta could just negotiate whatever it wanted much better than we can now.

02:20:17.040 I mean, we're effectively landlocked now, right? Well, we're policy-locked now.

02:20:23.040 And the minute we get the leverage to be able to negotiate our way out of that, we're going to be fine.

02:20:28.040 I would like to congratulate you guys in front of everybody like before April 28

02:20:48.200 it was still pretty crappy then it's worse now and the bow wave of volunteers and work that you

02:20:57.920 guys have done to get us this far in the value of freedom of the brilliant strategic move going

02:21:04.120 to the United States for the pre-delegation meeting. Great. Just a question. Have you

02:21:12.100 considered doing other delegations with some other countries that may want to recognize

02:21:17.160 us? Because Japan, Germany, Greece with the gas or other countries that could help us

02:21:22.920 We are now.

02:21:26.280 I mean, obviously we're pretty busy, but we'll try to find the time.

02:21:30.260 And we want to continue to bring up barnstorming the province this summer.

02:21:34.100 I mean, obviously we want to get out ahead of Danielle,

02:21:37.080 and we want to be in every single town and community that she's speaking in this summer

02:21:41.040 to tell people that there is another way forward,

02:21:44.380 and all these half measures that are being proposed by Team Canada just don't cut it,

02:21:49.300 and it will never, ever provide us the value that we will get

02:21:53.460 by handing all federal regulation and all federal taxation in Alberta.

02:22:02.360 The media is pretending that either Danielle or Comet Cousin Comet

02:22:06.280 are leading the separation.

02:22:08.500 How do we boost the image of APP?

02:22:11.600 A lot of people just don't seem to be aware of it as planned.

02:22:15.020 Well, we're doing what we can.

02:22:16.360 I mean, we're doing all of these townhouses.

02:22:18.300 we're trying to increase online presence, you know, both through, we have a planned social

02:22:24.840 media campaign coming forward that we're going to be paying for social media advertising,

02:22:28.960 Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, you know, et cetera, et cetera. We're planning

02:22:33.580 a blitz going forward. And then on top of it, you know, our work, you know, keep in

02:22:38.520 mind, this is a 12-month fight. So it's a marathon, it's not a sprint, right? So, you

02:22:44.660 we've now started with the value of freedom and rolling out the fully costed business plan for an

02:22:49.160 independent Alberta. I had one tweet actually the other day that I put out or posted on Hacks

02:22:53.740 where I was telling Danielle that it's time for her to comment on it. It got over 369,000 views,

02:23:00.800 right? You know, thank you to the APP site. So I mean, the word is getting out. But then the next

02:23:06.520 plan is, and I was glad to see Scott Payne here is one of our black hats and there you are. Scott

02:23:12.180 was involved in leading your group, putting together a draft interim constitution for

02:23:17.400 the province of Alberta that we're working on. So three weeks from now, after people

02:23:21.320 are tired about hearing how wealthy we're going to be and how much money we're going

02:23:24.960 to have when we're independent, then we're going to release the draft interim constitution

02:23:30.000 and then we're going to be running around the province saying, not only are we going

02:23:33.540 to be really wealthy, but here's the constitution and look how free we're going to be, right?

02:23:42.180 And 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.

02:24:01.900 But 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.

02:24:28.260 Yeah, and many of these media companies have been at our events as well, which is really interesting.

02:24:35.080 So, yeah.

02:24:37.540 So, as the CEO of APP, I'm going to ask you to raise money for us so that we can do that,

02:24:43.680 because that's what this is all going to be about.

02:24:46.560 I mean, we're working, we were rolling six months ago, literally.

02:24:50.580 We're not rolling anymore.

02:24:52.320 So, I'm just telling you, this is going to be a big fight.

02:24:55.820 somebody told me today that the okay so we have to fight back and if we're going to fight back so

02:25:02.860 we 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.

02:25:22.040 It'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.

02:25:40.560 And if you don't, you don't.

02:26:10.560 We're going to have the internet blitz, then we're going to have the highway signage.

02:26:17.560 You know, there is a plan and we're going to be following it.

02:26:20.560 So just everybody be patient, it's coming.

02:26:25.560 I just wanted to, you were starting to kind of answer one of the questions I had, which was the Constitution.

02:26:31.560 I have to be honest, I've kind of been leaning a little towards 51st State versus Independence.

02:26:36.560 But I like the independence idea, but my concerns of that are the Constitution.

02:26:41.560 We saw how Daniel Smith already basically ruined the Bill of Rights, Alberta Bill of Rights, what's section one?

02:26:48.560 Yeah, well I'm still curious.

02:26:49.560 I know, so it's like this is one of my questions is two things.

02:26:53.560 One, that, making sure that we have a real Constitution with real rights that are inalienable, not privileges.

02:27:00.560 Absolutely.

02:27:01.560 And second, this might be a little controversial, but Canada, Alberta, the United States was all funded under, or founded under the supremacy of God.

02:27:11.220 And that blessing does that happen.

02:27:13.020 We don't see that as being the least bit controversial, and that's certainly in the draft constitution that we're working on.

02:27:20.560 But, and just so people know, I mean, what we're looking at is kind of a hybrid model.

02:27:25.360 We're going to bring in some elements of the Swiss model where you have citizen referendums and citizen input.

02:27:30.520 on all major government initiatives, right?

02:27:33.560 We're going to have strict spending controls on government

02:27:36.060 so that they're not allowed to run deficit budgets

02:27:40.160 other than within very tightly controlled circumstances.

02:27:43.640 We're going to have a bicameral legislature,

02:27:46.260 so we're going to have a legislature or Congress based on population.

02:27:50.560 But importantly, then, we're going to have a Senate

02:27:52.480 that's based on the region,

02:27:54.200 so the cities can't basically override rural, you know, et cetera.

02:27:59.220 You 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.

02:28:10.180 You 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.

02:28:20.700 We're going to have an elected attorney general who is tasked with throwing crooked politicians in jail, right? 0.85

02:28:27.720 And we're going to have an elected auditor general.

02:28:29.900 We're going to have, you know, all types of positions that serve as watchdogs are going to be outside of cabinet,

02:28:35.200 and they're going to be elected positions responsible to the people,

02:28:38.820 and 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?

02:28:46.820 So 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.

02:28:59.080 Like, 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.

02:29:10.620 So 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.

02:29:16.820 So just understand what we told you. So just understand what the opposition is here now.

02:29:25.820 Her job is going to be extinct. And every politician in Alberta's job is going to be extinct for change. 1.00

02:29:31.820 So just understand the dynamic there between us and them and the possible reluctance to get in front of us.

02:29:40.820 I'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.

02:29:53.740 you guys went down to the states and had your delegation and talked to them you know they

02:30:01.740 recognize us as a song what if um you know all the flip-flopping that goes on we see daily weekly

02:30:09.500 monthly between a lot of world leaders what if they say okay yeah you guys are good to go and

02:30:15.420 then we do our part and then all of a sudden oh something happens we change our mind and then

02:30:20.860 this and everybody kind of boycotts us and puts us in a box and is there a strategy kind of around

02:30:25.980 that where all the leaders kind of don't recognize us and we're kind of well i mean we're very

02:30:31.660 confident for us recognition on a going forward basis but again you know we're doing this on the

02:30:37.260 basis that we have a clear path to follow under canadian law and that's specifically the clarity

02:30:42.300 act and the secession reference which clearly identified in paragraphs 154 and 155 a path for

02:30:49.100 for Alberta to leave Canada, okay?

02:30:51.160 So that's where we start from.

02:30:53.380 I mean, as to, you know, all of the what-ifs,

02:30:55.980 I mean, you know, I don't know what to say to that.

02:30:58.160 I mean, it's all hypothetical at that point.

02:31:00.660 But I mean, all we can do is, you know,

02:31:02.920 is to move forward every day,

02:31:04.220 keep putting one foot in front of the other,

02:31:06.720 and as I often tell my wife,

02:31:08.060 I'm not going to let fear or common sense stop me.

02:31:13.280 Just another comment, remember what Trump said?

02:31:16.740 He said he wants continental-wide security,

02:31:21.020 and he wants energy security.

02:31:23.500 And we can provide an element of continental-wide security

02:31:26.540 that we can definitely provide energy security.

02:31:30.340 They want to do a deal with Alberta,

02:31:33.860 because we have a lot to offer, not just oil and gas.

02:31:36.780 It's minerals.

02:31:37.400 It's agriculture.

02:31:39.660 It's forestry, et cetera.

02:31:42.780 Grill, baby, grill.

02:31:45.420 Hey, and we just got to note, this will be our last question.

02:31:48.200 Our volunteers reminded us that we're being a little bit abusive tonight.

02:31:51.580 It's 9.50 p.m. already, so we're going to wrap it up after this question.

02:31:55.580 I just wanted to thank everybody so much for coming up.

02:31:58.540 My question goes back to tax, specifically, and it ties into property rights.

02:32:04.620 Property tax.

02:32:05.840 Right now, if you don't pay your tax, if you can't pay your property tax,

02:32:10.340 you'll be on the street in two years.

02:32:13.000 That's just the reality.

02:32:13.920 So you really don't own your home.

02:32:16.940 The government can step in and just take it away from you.

02:32:19.500 What can we do with that?

02:32:20.620 We're aware of that.

02:32:21.480 If you read this document, the value of freedom, we've posited a change to that.

02:32:26.240 Because we think that, in effect, taxing people on the basis of the increased value of their property,

02:32:32.480 you know, in effect violates the right to property under the Alberta Bill of Rights.

02:32:36.960 And we would have that as a fundamental principle, you know, under the Constitution of a free Alberta.

02:32:41.440 So we hear you on that, agree with you 100%

02:32:44.200 and it's going to be addressed.

02:32:45.160 So thank you.

02:32:46.480 And everybody, thank you so much for coming out.

02:32:48.340 What a wonderful evening.

02:32:49.980 And we were told to announce that there are donation options.

02:32:55.800 If you want to donate by email transfer,

02:32:58.060 you can go to donate at albertaprosperity.com

02:33:01.460 or donations at www.albertaprosperity.com.

02:33:05.260 So thank you all very much for coming out.

02:33:06.840 Thank you.

02:33:11.440 How many do you have in the live stream?

02:33:21.440 I think there were between 4 and 4.50, more or less.

02:33:25.440 The only post on YouTube?

02:33:28.440 Yeah, that's all, just YouTube at this time.

02:33:31.440 Have you ever considered...

02:33:34.440 I'm still live, by the way.

02:33:36.440 Okay.

02:33:37.440 Yeah, hold on, just a sec.

02:33:39.440 I'll take them.

02:34:09.440 .

02:34:39.440 .

02:35:09.440 We are done here, we're almost packed, people are going home now, so it's called PJ the

02:35:32.160 belt, just like that, like a belt, PJ the belt, yep, still live, oh you're gonna, okay,

02:35:39.200 i might get a coffee too

02:35:46.080 let me just check if dr michael wagner still has books i would love to get one of his books

02:35:56.240 there you go guys these are these books are the ones that you want to get right here

02:36:02.000 it's from dr michael wagner he's right here

02:36:04.400 I believe this was your first book right here right this one oh this was the first first one

02:36:23.120 okay then you have no other option that's the one I was commenting on before and this is the

02:36:28.240 latest one right here okay I finally want to get one of these

02:36:32.940 sure get one of these let me just get the wife 1.00

02:36:43.020 I get this one right here are these on Amazon so this is where you guys so it's

02:36:55.340 based uh alberta-based business you guys want to get these books it talks about the history

02:37:01.100 of uh alberta and how it's been treated mistreated really in confederation so you guys want to

02:37:07.660 check these books out i'm getting myself this one i already read that one

02:37:11.500 i'll read this one right here

02:37:17.660 all right guys talk to y'all later pj see y'all later

02:37:25.340 I think that's what it's possible to get out for.

PJ The Belt - July 12, 2025

ALBERTA INDEPENDENCE TOWNHALL - FORT SASKATCHEWAN - ALBERTA PROSPERITY PROJECT @fcalendardotnet

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