PJ The Belt - August 09, 2026


＂NO DEAL＂ Alberta HAS REJECTED Mark Carney's Canada!!


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00:00:00.000 We got a major development on Canadian politics this week.
00:00:03.920 The government of Alberta has officially stepped away from Canada
00:00:07.280 and is defying Canada's authoritarian regime and draconian laws.
00:00:12.220 And we're going to get into it.
00:00:13.280 It's not the culture in Alberta.
00:00:15.020 We reaffirmed in our Alberta Bill of Rights that free speech is protected.
00:00:20.860 We'll be a safe haven in Alberta.
00:00:22.600 We'll find a way to, maybe we'll have to cut a deal.
00:00:25.740 Are we going to go there?
00:00:26.620 We'll have to go to the studio.
00:00:27.500 you just mentioned we'll cut a deal with elon uh with starlink so that you can have your little
00:00:32.300 ham radios and and do your broadcasting but i can tell you that that is not the pathway
00:00:36.700 we're going down in alberta and the thing is this is all coming in light of a referendum
00:00:42.780 an official independence referendum that is coming on october 19th of this year where albertans will
00:00:49.340 get to decide whether to stay a part of canada or begin the process to separate from canada
00:00:55.820 Our approach in Alberta is that the federal government does have the power of criminal
00:01:01.360 law. We have the power of non-enforcement. And what that means is we choose our policing
00:01:08.820 priorities and we choose our Crown prosecution priorities. And I can tell you, if the intention
00:01:14.140 behind it is to do what we're seeing in the UK, where regular citizens are getting hauled
00:01:19.440 off to prison because they post something online that hurts someone's feelings, we are
00:01:24.700 just not enforcing that. There's no way. That's not the culture in Alberta. We reaffirmed
00:01:30.680 in our Alberta Bill of Rights that free speech is protected, and we think that's a government
00:01:37.400 overreach. The worry I have about how this may ... I mean, so that's how I think private
00:01:44.160 citizens should be looking at that, is just look at what's happening in other jurisdictions,
00:01:48.120 and we've got to draw a line saying that we have to be able to toughen up.
00:01:51.360 you see the thing is this country formerly known as canada but now no better known as china has
00:01:57.440 decided to emulate the uk the united kingdom where they're arresting people over what they say on the
00:02:04.560 internet because of draconian and authoritarian hate speech laws right you got videos and footage
00:02:10.560 of people that wrote something some sort of comment online and the police will show up at their door
00:02:16.000 and they'll literally arrest them. And Canada has recently passed a law, Bill C-9, where they're
00:02:21.600 trying to copy exactly what the UK has done. There are areas of criminal law where you
00:02:28.160 legitimately cannot say things that subject another group to hatred or violence. That's a very high
00:02:34.000 bar and it should be a high bar, but hurt feelings laws, you can't police them. The worry I have
00:02:40.400 about the independent media is that we're in a world now where the media is so disaggregated.
00:02:47.520 We used to have a national consensus because we all used to sit and watch the six o'clock news,
00:02:51.200 and it used to be three stations. Advertising used to go to those three stations to be able
00:02:56.080 to support good journalism. What has happened over time is that all of the ad revenues are
00:03:02.000 going to social media, and so the mainstream media is turning to government sources to be
00:03:07.040 be able to get the revenues that they need. And as soon as government starts funding,
00:03:10.940 then government starts playing the tune. And that's what I worry about in independent media.
00:03:15.460 And whereas it applies to the independent media, I feel like they're trying to put
00:03:20.940 independent media in the same category for Canadian content and all of the rules and
00:03:26.120 restrictions the CRTC puts on regular broadcast television, which does not make any sense
00:03:31.840 whatsoever and i think could be quite not only onerous but if they're able to as they can with
00:03:38.060 private broadcasters pull your license to be able to broadcast that's what he said that's where i
00:03:43.980 worry it's going to end up going the government of alberta has decided to draw a line in the sand
00:03:49.280 saying that's not happening in our jurisdiction you're not taking free speech away from albertans
00:03:54.020 not on our watch bill c9 is a censorship law disguised as an act to protect youth and protect
00:04:03.560 people online you know how it always is that liberals will create a draconian dictatorship
00:04:09.280 tyrannical law and they'll disguise it in some sort of benevolent little something to get you
00:04:16.340 to you know feel guilty if you don't support it and whatnot but bill c9 not only doesn't solve
00:04:22.060 problems of hate crimes it not only doesn't give law enforcement new tools it will create a morass
00:04:28.700 i'm absolutely certain that if this law is passed as is it will waste police resources waste court
00:04:36.620 time and tie people up in knots in wrongful prosecutions for things that were never hate
00:04:42.780 crimes at all so with that mr speaker i vote against this bill let's get
00:04:48.380 you literally already have police departments in Canada wanting to enforce hate speech laws
00:04:55.220 online and threatening arrests for people who leave comments on places like Facebook,
00:05:00.920 Instagram, X, and so on. And most importantly, they've already arrested 12,000 people for
00:05:07.120 social media posts. That's insane. Above and beyond every other country, way above Russia.
00:05:12.440 Russia was like 400 last year. The UK is 12,000.
00:05:17.400 Any criticism of immigration, any criticism of grooming gangs,
00:05:23.040 any talk about how horrible this is, they come visit you.
00:05:26.480 It's like someone's trying to destroy England.
00:05:29.180 It's literally like they've got a concerted effort to destroy England,
00:05:33.340 and they're getting away with it.
00:05:34.660 Basically, Section 19 refers to spreading what we say like racial hatred.
00:05:39.240 so you've posted something online that we believe is spreading racial hatred.
00:05:43.040 Twitter, Facebook, what?
00:05:45.040 I can't explain too much, just to give you the context beforehand.
00:05:49.040 What have we put here in the interview?
00:05:50.540 Because I appreciate you've never been arrested before, have you?
00:05:52.540 Yeah, once or twice.
00:05:53.540 Once or twice.
00:05:54.540 Frequent flyer.
00:05:55.540 I didn't think you were.
00:05:57.540 Basically, how it works now is then, obviously if you've got stuff you'd like to gather,
00:06:02.540 obviously I'm more than willing to talk through what you're able to take with you.
00:06:05.540 What, you're taking me away now?
00:06:07.040 yes so you're around arrest so you're going to harrogate unfortunately you're taking me to
00:06:11.040 harrogate in the middle of the night over a tweet i am unfortunately is this what you signed up the
00:06:16.320 police to do this is my role i'm trying to be reasonable with you here so if there's stuff
00:06:21.120 you'd like to gather i'm more than willing to allow you to gather some sort of stuff like
00:06:24.720 medication if you've got any numbers you need you do understand i'm going to make the maximum fuss
00:06:30.880 about this free speech union absolutely uh you guys just doing your jobs obviously but
00:06:36.720 your head bosses have just opened up a world of trust me if i didn't have to be here i wouldn't
00:06:42.560 be um but i'm happy i'm quite certain you two have got like 50 better things to do and then
00:06:50.160 you start tightening that noose tighter and tighter add more restrictions more this more that
00:06:56.800 I mean, it's we're getting closer and just the arresting people when you arrest
00:07:01.800 12,000 people for social media posts
00:07:03.640 You don't just arrest people for social media posts you change people's ability to post about things because of fear
00:07:09.920 So they self-censor so you don't even you're hitting them with like this one guy who complained about there's a famous video 1.00
00:07:16.760 Or this fucking idiot in a wig. He's one of them judges and they wear the wigs the white-powdered wigs and he's 1.00
00:07:22.620 uh sentencing this guy for 20 months for social media posts that are normal but i give credit
00:07:29.260 where credit is due and i'm glad to see the government of alberta led by danielle smith
00:07:33.820 has decided to draw a line in the sand and say no we're not enforcing hate speech laws free
00:07:39.980 speech matters and that's the law of the land in alberta good on her remember youtube doesn't
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00:07:55.640 one. Peace.