Canada's Courts BLOCK Alberta INDEPENDENCE - ＂You're NOT going Anywhere!＂
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The Alberta Prosperity Project has a constitutional independence referendum question that has been referred to a judge for confirmation that the question doesn t violate the constitution. The APP has 250,000 signatures in support of the question, but the Chief Electoral Officer has yet to approve the question.
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Hey everybody, PJ. Got an update for you guys on Alberta independence. About a month ago,
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exactly on July 4th, the Alberta Prosperity Project, the organization, not-for-profit
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organization, spearheading the effort to see Alberta become independent from Canada,
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deposited the petition with Elections Alberta to have the referendum question approved to begin
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the official collection of signatures. As you guys know, the law was updated by the Alberta
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government to go from like 600,000 signatures to 177,000 and the APP waited for the rules to change
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since they have about already 250,000 people signed up that are willing to sign the petition to see a
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referendum in Alberta. So you guys can see here, this is a tweet from Jeffrey Rath, one of the
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leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project, which was posted exactly on July 4th. And it says here,
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breaking Edmonton, Alberta, Mitch Sylvester, Dennis Modry, and Jeff Rath just filed the constitutional
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independence referendum petition question at Elections Alberta. As the Sylvester question is
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constitutional, absent a perverse ruling by the chief electoral officer, it will supersede
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Lukasik question brought under the old statute to preserve the status quo. What he's referring to
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when he mentions this individual here, Lukasik, is the competing referendum question, which basically
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is looking to maintain the status quo, keep Alberta locked to Canada, no matter the abuse,
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no matter the amount of unfair treatment, no matter how much Canada continues to disenfranchise
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Albertans, they want to keep Canada, Alberta forever, forever Canadian is what they call their
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campaign, no matter the amount of damage that Canada has caused Alberta historically and continues to
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cost to this day. What he's saying here is that the question posed by the Alberta Prosperity Project
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is constitutional. The other one is a policy question. Make government policy that Alberta
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stays within Canada forever, you know, but this one is constitutional. A province separating and forming
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its own country is a question that is much higher in the totem pole of constitutionality than the other
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one. It seems that the sabotage and the effort to undermine the Alberta independence movement has
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So as we can read here, Edmonton, a potential referendum question on Alberta separating from Canada has been
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referred to a judge for confirmation that the question doesn't violate the constitution. The proposed
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question seeks a yes or no answer to, do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign
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country and cease to be a province in Canada? Alberta's chief electoral officer, Gordon McClure, in a news
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conference or in a news release Monday said, provincial laws require potential referendum questions to
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respect more than 30 sections of the constitution, including the charter of rights and freedoms.
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I'm sure like that document means anything anymore in Canada.
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McClure's release doesn't say which, if any, specific sections he's unsure about and his office didn't
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immediately respond to questions asking for details. The potential referendum question was submitted to
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the electoral officer earlier this month by Mitch Sylvester, an executive with the Alberta Prosperity
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Project, a not-for-profit group that has been touring the province promoting independence.
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Sylvester, who didn't immediately respond to an interview request Monday, has said he thinks interest
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amongst Albertans in holding a separation referendum increases with every speaking event his group
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organizes. Quote, the more people that hear what the message is, the more people that will be in
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favor, he said in an interview last month. The Alberta Prosperity Project said on social media that
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McClure's decision was a delay tactic and that the group would respond in court if need be.
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Yeah, so the Alberta Prosperity Project, Jeff Rath already tweeted out that they're ready to take this to court if need be.
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The electoral officer's release says the court of King's Bench will schedule a proceeding
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for the matter, for the matter, and that Sylvester and the provincial justice minister
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have been notified of his decision to refer the question to a judge.
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An spokesperson for elections in Alberta said that once the question is assessed in court,
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McClure will have 30 days to determine if the proposed question meets other legislative requirements.
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If his question is approved, Sylvester and the Alberta Prosperity Project would need to collect
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177,000 signatures in four months to put the question of Alberta separation on a ballot.
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In June, the chief electoral officer approved a competing question that seeks to have Alberta
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make an official policy that the province will never separate from Canada. That's the petition that I
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talked to you guys about, the competing one by a former politician who popped out of nowhere to
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be. He's suddenly the most patriotic Canadian ever, and he wants to preserve Canada and keep things the
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way they are, even though Alberta has continued to be treated unfairly by the federal government for
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decades and decades, and it's only gotten worse over the past 10 years. The machinery of government,
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you got to remember these people are in power. They control the federal government.
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They control the media. They control, heck, even sports. Even sports people can't speak against
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the government in this country. Canada has become very draconian in its approach to dissent to people
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who have different opinions than the general government narrative. Just look at what they did to
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the truckers, and that tells you everything about the state of Canada in today's day and age. In other news,
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you have apparently the premier and the justice minister, I believe his name is Mike Emery,
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and they came out. I don't know how much of this is theater, because again, you got to remember these
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people are politicians, and a lot of people are saying, including myself, that Danielle Smith is
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playing the middle here. She's not straight up coming out and saying, yes, I'm all in for independence.
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She's trying to say, yeah, I want Alberta within a united Canada, sovereign Alberta within a confederated
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Canada or whatever it is, but she's also made some moves that have facilitated the move towards
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independence, including lowering the required amount of signatures in order to trigger that
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referendum, which was insane before. It was literally an insurmountable amount of signatures that
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you have to collect within 90 days. This was done by the previous premier, who was a federalist.
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This headline says from CTV News, Alberta premier and minister called for separation referendum question
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to be approved. It seems that they came out against the whole delay tactic by the judge and the court
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to go through some sort of bureaucratic procedure to take longer. They came out against that and they
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say in declarations that at the end of the day, it's up to the government of Alberta whether the
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question will be approved and whether it is constitutional or not, that it shouldn't be the courts judging that.
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I checked a few of the comments here. This guy climate changer says we either go down with the sinking ship
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with the sinking Canada or get in the Alberta independence life raft, life raft. Think about it.
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Then we have let the people decide by Calgary guy. Separation is essential to avoid
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Carnies third world Canada and famine. So this is what we're looking at.
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This is what's going on in Alberta when it comes to independence.
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The sabotage continues, the effort to destroy the movement, the effort to undermine it,
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keep it, you know, not let it get to an actual question. These people do not want it to get to
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an actual referendum question because they know that once that happens, we are farther than we've
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ever been before. Because Quebec, they've threatened to separate and they had a couple referendums and
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one came really close, but a lot of people say that they never meant to leave. With Alberta, they don't
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want us to have a referendum because they know that Albertans mean to leave. Quebec separating from Canada,
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it wouldn't do so well because they depend on Canada for all their socialist programs and their
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finances. They receive to the tune of like $15 billion a year, a big chunk of that coming from
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Alberta directly. Alberta, on the other hand, is a net contributor to this country. So that's why they
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take Alberta independence much more seriously than Quebec separatism. Albertans actually, those who
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believe in independence, actually know that their province would be much better off
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independent from Canada. Thank you to all of you tuning in. I appreciate it. Please hit the like
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