Alberta WALKING AWAY From Canada - The USA STATEHOOD Recognition Incoming？!
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Summary
The Alberta Prosperity Project is fighting to force a referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada. They argue that a referendum should be held on separation from the rest of the country, but the government won't allow it.
Transcript
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Do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province in Canada?
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If you get Albertans to express the sentiment that they have had enough and that they do want to leave,
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whether or not that's to become independent or whether it's to join the United States as the 51st state, it doesn't matter.
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Once you get across that threshold, then you'll find out what can happen after that.
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Maybe it will be a renegotiation of the terms of this country.
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I suspect that's not likely, but it's possible.
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Maybe they'll have to go the whole way and become independent.
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Maybe after they do that, they will think about joining the U.S. or not.
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We are heading into the undiscovered country now. We don't know.
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Things continue to get more messy and complicated for Alberta patriots
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as government bureaucrats come up with delayed tactics to deny Albertans the right to vote for their independence.
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The challenging court battles and attacks from the government paid media have begun.
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The Alberta Prosperity Project vows to fight in court for as long as it takes to make sure Albertans make their voices heard
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and get a real referendum on independence and separation from Canada.
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My name is Brian and my question is, if all this is legal and the referendum and everything,
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why are we letting the government take us through the court procedure to decide if we can do this?
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Well, again, it's just game-playing on the part of the government.
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I still want to find out who it was that amended the Citizens' Initiative Act to put that provision in.
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Another provision of the Citizens' Initiative Act is that the Chief Electoral Officer and Elections Alberta
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are supposed to work with questioned proponents to help them if there's any concern
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that the question that they have isn't legal or appropriate.
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Needless to say, they never reached out to Mitch Sylvester.
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They never reached out to our office to say, hey, oh, well, you know, we have some concerns about this.
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Would you like to add the words, you know, consistent with the Constitution of Canada
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to the end of your referendum question so we don't have any concerns?
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And this is going to come back, you know, if Danielle doesn't simply adopt our question
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and put it forward under the Referendum Act, what's she going to do?
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She has the ability to completely ignore the court.
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If she doesn't do that, I think there's going to be hell to pay come the AGM,
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The Premier of Alberta isn't just talking tough.
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She set down a list of demands to Ottawa, knowing full well that the federal liberals will never deliver.
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At the same time, she's out hosting town halls, rallying Albertans to the idea of real independence.
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And when, inevitably, those demands are not met, she'll have the perfect case.
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Looks like she's building a roadmap to freedom, one broken liberal promise at a time.
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How do you design a constitution differently so that the elites sitting on the court are not the ones dictating to everybody from now on?
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Because when I talked to Brian Peckford, I wrote Brian Peckford, he says the charter has been abused because it went from God-given rights,
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which he really thought people would understand, that God is supreme, to what I would call government-given rights.
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So when people look at the charter, the way they interpret it is, here are the rights given to me by my government.
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Would you flip that model so that it's restrictions on government versus restrictions on the people?
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Yes, so this is a very good first step in imagining a new constitution.
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The constitution that we have now is built in this way.
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Now, there are divided jurisdictions between the provinces and the federal government.
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The state as a whole, if you include the federal government and the provinces and all the other bits of the state,
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the state's powers are unlimited, unlimited, except for those rights are set out in the charter.
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And what I've been suggesting is there might be a way to reverse that default.
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Instead of saying unlimited except, say, the state has the power to do nothing.
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Because there are some things you want a state to do.
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You want the state to protect you from invasions from outside, and so on and so forth.
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So you don't want to make the state completely powerless because there's no point in having it then.
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But if you establish that as the default position, the state can do nothing that's not specifically listed here.
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And that if there's any question, if it's not listed, then you can't do it.
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If you do it that way, then you actually don't need a charter or a Bill of Rights.
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Because instead of carving things out of that unlimited amount of power, now the state's only allowed to do certain things,
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so you don't need to prevent it from going further.
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So that's one of the ideas about how to approach a newly envisioned constitution.
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So when I tell you guys that Alberta and the rest of Canada, especially central and eastern Canada, are completely different, I mean it.
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And the differences are becoming more and more pronounced and stark.
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Look, Canada, eastern and central Canada, the federal government is the perfect representation of what that society is becoming.
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We got to remember who voted them in because people will say, well, that's not my government.
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Because if your province voted majority for them, then that is the government that you elected.
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Of course, there's people in every province who have common sense, who have some great values.
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But make no mistake about it, these people won by a large margin.
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They're becoming more corrupt, more emboldened in their decay, more emboldened in their destruction of the values and social structure that this country used to have.
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And that's because the people figured out and decided that this is a movement of the people, not a movement of the politicians.
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And we were just talking this morning over coffee before we started about the politics that surround this.
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And it really does need to be a movement of the people, literal for the people and by the people.
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Leave the politicians out of it for the first little while until it's their time to come in and finish the job.
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And while I was in the midst of all of this, I learned a lot, not just about politics, but about the forces around politics.
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And when we see these independence groups begin to fall apart and people blame egos, I learned that that's only half right.
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But what actually happens is it's the people on the outside and it's global that don't want to see us become our own nation.
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And they come in and they find the low-hanging fruit within those groups, who they can manipulate, who they can make promises to.
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And then they use those people to collapse it from the inside rather than from the outside.
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And that was fascinating to me, which caused me to think that, you know what, maybe as we move forward with this whole independence thing,
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all of us being under one banner is a terrible idea.
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We need all the voices out there that we're all working together.
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But we're not all together under one banner because then it makes it harder to pull us down.
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And it seems like everybody in this movement has figured that out.
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And we've seen growth that we've never seen before.
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