On today's show, we have a special guest on the show to talk about the Alberta government's response to the federal government's stand on Alberta's separation from Canada. We also have an update on the situation with the Grey Cup, and Danielle Smith's comments on Alberta independence. Finally, the UCP is recruiting separatists on social media to join the party.
00:01:43.900I will give credit where credit is due, though.
00:01:50.900She's passed several laws that are actually conservative, like protecting our children from puberty blockers, protecting free speech.
00:02:01.060And she has not increased taxes in a country where every other politician has done just that.
00:02:08.840But I'm not going to sit here and lie to you.
00:02:11.240Of course, there's the angle of thinking this is all part of her very secret secret plan to get Carney and the liberals to show their true colors and then throw her support behind the independence movement.
00:02:26.540But again, I don't know what's in her mind.
00:02:29.840All I can do is look at her actions and judge her by them.
00:02:33.480So we're going to jump right into the report here.
00:02:35.960But before we do that, if you support this video, I'm going to ask you to do me a quick favor and hit the like and subscribe buttons.
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00:02:46.680So you got this tweet right here from Yukon Strong expressing basically my frustration when it comes to Danielle Smith and her lack of support, fortitude, strength, whatever you may call it, when it comes to Alberta independence.
00:03:01.100Tweet goes, Danielle Smith says she will not be pursuing Alberta independence and says the UCP is a political party that is, quote, focused on bringing together two different cultures.
00:03:12.900Which cultures you think she's referring to freedom versus serfdom?
00:03:22.900We've established, at least Albertans, majority of Albertans that still have some common sense.
00:03:29.320We've established that Canada and Alberta have irreconcilable differences, differences that just can't be worked around, differences that are not reconcilable.
00:03:41.280So the rest of Canada, maybe except for Saskatchewan, like free stuff.
00:03:49.860After 10 years of liberals, they chose, again, the exact same liberals that put Canada in the precarious situation that we find ourselves in.
00:03:58.380So, again, it's well established that Albertans, Prairie Westerners, because I'll include Saskatchewan in there, are just not compatible with the rest of Canada when it comes to policy, politics, social structure.
00:04:13.600Anyway, here's the clip where she's being asked about the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:04:17.660One of the leaders, Jeffrey Rath, encouraging Albertans to attend a UCP AGM that is coming up later this month in November.
00:04:24.440And this is what she had to say about it.
00:04:26.360And unrelated follow-up, Mr. Jeffrey Rath of the Alberta Prosperity Project, he's openly recruiting separatists on social media to join the UCP with the intention of stacking the party's board with separatists at the next AGM.
00:04:43.600Can you say whether Mr. Rath is presently a member in good standing?
00:04:46.720And will you be vetting people who buy UCP memberships for any sort of sentiments relating to separatism that they've been expressing online or in other domains?
00:04:56.380We think that these kinds of issues need to be put forward through a citizen-initiated referendum process.
00:05:02.840We are a political party that focuses on the things where we agree.
00:05:06.120Our political party is an act of political will, bringing together two different cultures.
00:05:10.520And one of the foundational principles was that we will pursue Alberta autonomy within a united Canada.
00:05:15.520And that is what I have been, that is my marching orders, that is the terms under which I recruited my candidates, that's the terms under which all of my caucus members got elected.
00:05:23.840And unless that changes through a public referendum, there's no change in our party policy.
00:05:29.260The issue is that you're not pursuing sovereignty, even within a united Canada.
00:05:34.080You're not creating the conditions that will shield Alberta from the mess that the rest of Canada is turning into.
00:05:39.980You're not creating our own police force, at least not fast enough as far as I'm concerned.
00:05:44.040You're not creating the Alberta pension plan.
00:05:50.320These are all things that you should be doing right away.
00:05:52.640These are all things that you partially campaigned on when you talked about the Sovereignty Act.
00:05:58.320These are all things you should be doing right away, even if you believe that Alberta should stay within Canada,
00:06:03.400but needs to be more independent from within Canada, whatever that means.
00:06:07.820I personally don't think Alberta can actually be free and sovereign within Canada because Canada is a cancerous system.
00:06:15.920It's just a system that will corrupt every single corner of this country.
00:06:20.920And then Canada's constitution doesn't mean anything to the Liberals, and they've proven it time and time again.
00:06:26.020If she came out and supported independence, she would only be representing a big majority of the people who put her in power to begin with.
00:06:34.260Here's another clip of her at a recent press conference where she's being asked by Rick Bell from the Calgary Herald
00:06:40.220in regards to David Eby, Premier of British Columbia, expressing his opposition to any pipelines,
00:06:48.560any new pipelines coming from Alberta to British Columbia, British Columbia being on the coast,
00:06:53.780Alberta not having access, any direct access to the coast.
00:06:57.540And this guy, the Premier, the leader of that province, saying that he's not interested,
00:07:02.400no pipeline is going to go through British Columbia, et cetera, et cetera.