Rebel News Podcast - Alberta separatist sentiment demands open debate (Guest： Danny Hozack)

00:00:00.000 Hello Rebels, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're listening to a free audio-only recording

00:00:04.600 of my show, The Gunn Show. Tonight my guest is Danny Hozak from the Economic Education

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00:01:10.060 this free audio-only version of my show. A lot of people want Albertans to just shut up about

00:01:31.560 separation. But one man in his conference refuses to abide all the scolding. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:01:38.520 and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:57.820 Albertans everywhere can't stop talking about separation. It is literally all we talk about.

00:02:03.060 We want to talk about what a new deal looks like for us. And there are a lot of ideas on

00:02:08.460 the table right now. Is it complete separation as in being a new country? Is it renegotiated

00:02:13.680 equalization? Does it mean just collecting our own taxes and running our own pension plan?

00:02:19.000 Or is it something more drastic like joining the United States as a full state or maybe just

00:02:25.100 becoming a territory? There are a lot of questions to be answered in the coming months about Alberta's

00:02:30.920 future and our relationship with Canada and the rest of Confederation. But our self-appointed

00:02:37.180 moral and intellectual superiors, if they had their way, we wouldn't even be allowed to ask the

00:02:42.400 questions, let alone get some answers for ourselves. But that's not stopping my friend

00:02:47.100 Danny Hozak. He's the chairman of the Economic Education Association of Alberta. He's based near

00:02:54.400 Lloydminster. And this weekend, he's hosting his seventh annual Freedom Talk conference. It's a two-day

00:03:01.600 event. Now, each year, the conference, as the title alludes to, discusses issues of freedom. Last year,

00:03:08.220 the topic was education. This year, they are discussing the pros and cons of staying within

00:03:16.300 Canada. And Danny is bringing in some very smart people from both sides of the debate to have the

00:03:24.180 debate. So joining me now in an interview we recorded yesterday morning is Danny Hozak from his farm

00:03:30.360 near Lloydminster. And please bear with us because you have two farmers using Skype from their respective

00:03:36.820 middle-of-nowhere locations. So sometimes our Skype connection gets a little laggy.

00:03:42.660 So joining me now is my friend and fellow farmer, Danny Hozak from the Economic Education Association.

00:04:04.160 Danny, thank you so much for joining me. I wanted to talk to you today because you host these amazing

00:04:11.360 conferences every single year. I think this year is the seventh. Why don't you talk a little bit about

00:04:17.560 your upcoming conference? It's actually coming up this weekend. So the 15th and 16th.

00:04:23.920 Yes. Thank you very much for having me on. We really appreciate the publicity that we get from

00:04:29.320 you and the rebel. We really do appreciate that. And yes, this is our seventh conference. It's called

00:04:34.160 Meeting the Challenge of Western Separation or Meeting the Unity Challenge, depending on how you want to

00:04:39.320 look at it. We're trying to be impartial in the discussion. We've got some people that are going

00:04:46.280 to be making the case for separation. We have some people that are going to be defending federalism.

00:04:51.300 And then we have a third part of our conference, which is actually irrespective of whether you have

00:04:55.400 one country or whether you have two, like there are some issues that you have to deal with, which

00:04:59.420 we call that forging a stronger relationship with neighbors, meaning America, meaning the First

00:05:04.880 Nations, meaning other provinces, maybe the Northwest Territory. So it's sort of broken down into three

00:05:10.560 different categories.

00:05:12.440 Yeah. And, you know, I'm interested in the, like the speakers that you have. You have speakers from

00:05:18.740 all over the country. You have our friend Andrew Lawton, who's coming. You've got John Robson,

00:05:25.520 who's, you know, a perennial favorite at your conferences. But you also have people like Prem Singh,

00:05:31.040 who's ready to pull the chute on Canada from Alberta can't wait. Very outspoken lady. But you 1.00

00:05:37.260 also have people like Patrick Moore, Michelle Sterling, the guys from CFACT, which I think is a

00:05:44.900 great get to come up to Canada to talk to us. That's a, that's a really big speaker for you to

00:05:51.200 bring up. And the reason I bring up the people who are going to talk about the environmental

00:05:56.740 movement, I think in large part, the failure to address the foreign meddling in our economic

00:06:06.540 system, in our system of government, in our electoral system has fueled so much separatist

00:06:13.640 sentiment in Alberta, because it is the thing that led to the pipelines being blocked. And for so many

00:06:19.980 people, that's their number one issue on why they want to leave the country. 0.71

00:06:23.540 You're absolutely right. And as you know, like two conferences ago, our conference was

00:06:28.940 meeting the climate change challenge, which we talked about a lot of the meddling by foreign 1.00

00:06:34.480 factors, by the foreign groups. But Mark Morano is coming. And I think this is one of the most

00:06:39.360 interesting things that we're going to be talking about the conference. I think he's one of the most

00:06:42.820 quoted conservatives in America. He's going to be talking about indoctrination versus education.

00:06:47.760 And the point he's going to make, and we agree with, is the left have done a better job of

00:06:52.680 indoctrinating our kids and our students and our voters than the right have done of educating them.

00:06:58.180 The right, you know, it's my opinion, they thought they would be all right just because they were

00:07:03.260 right. But quite frankly, we're seeing in this whole world of indoctrination and misinformation

00:07:07.180 and fake news, you, I think the conservative movement is going to have to do a better job

00:07:12.500 of making their case to, to everyone, starting from the schools, to the voters, to even to the

00:07:18.160 energy industry. And quite frankly, if we want things to recover in Alberta, we are going to

00:07:22.340 have to go and make our case to foreign investors again. And one of the things Patrick Moore told us

00:07:27.920 at our conference last year was, you can say what you like about, you know, getting rid of Rachel

00:07:33.180 Notley, but that foreign investors will not be coming back to invest in our energy industry

00:07:37.820 till we withdraw our commitment to the Paris Agreement, till we start making it, you know,

00:07:42.480 Alberta, an investor friendly environment again. You know, that's a fantastic point. And it's

00:07:49.580 something I've actually talked to Mark Moreno about at United Nations conferences. I think last

00:07:54.800 year in Poland, we talked about this. The, the way that Donald Trump is dealing with the Paris Accord,

00:08:03.180 he's mocking it, he treats it like the, the piece of outlandish fiction that it really is, as opposed

00:08:10.780 to taking it as though it's this document that's going to save the world the way Catherine McKenna

00:08:15.340 does. And that is really, I think, to some extent, what is fueling the lack of investor confidence

00:08:22.060 in Canada. Why would you invest in, for example, Southern Saskatchewan that shares the Bakken oil

00:08:28.360 field with North Dakota, when you can just go to North Dakota, where there's a completely different

00:08:32.940 investment climate and a completely different sentiment from the federal government about carbon

00:08:38.440 emissions and regulations? You're absolutely right. And I mean, and I think this is, this is at the,

00:08:44.980 this is at the core of everything that's wrong in our country today. And I don't necessarily blame

00:08:50.860 the left as much as I blame some of our people on the right for not fighting back against it. And

00:08:55.560 one of the things we're going to suggest is we need to go back to first principles. As you know,

00:08:59.980 I used to be on the Alberta Beef Producers, it was called the Alberta Cattle Commission when I was

00:09:03.740 there. And we always said sound science plus sound economics leads to sound public policy.

00:09:09.320 Sometimes it's not politically correct to say it, but I mean, it's still, it was true then, 1.00

00:09:13.360 and it's true now. We have to go back to sound science, sound economics. If you were a manager

00:09:18.940 of a hundred billion dollar pension fund in Hong Kong or Tokyo or one of the world's financial

00:09:24.640 centers, and, and you said, well, you know, let's, let's just go and invest in Alberta and take a chance

00:09:29.040 that they really won't, that they'll, that they won't, you know, meet their Paris commitments,

00:09:33.240 that they won't persecute us, that they won't persecute consumers of fossil fuels. Let's take

00:09:36.900 a chance on that. Well, quite frankly, if you suggested that you'd be going home in a taxi,

00:09:40.740 as unfortunately a lot of our oil field workers are, because they wouldn't, they wouldn't tolerate 0.99

00:09:45.200 it at all. So I think we have to be realistic and say, look, let's go back to square one on this.

00:09:49.620 And that's what Patrick Moore is going to talk about. He's going to talk about how a few dedicated,

00:09:54.360 loyal, focused people can literally change the course of history, quite frankly, which he has

00:09:59.520 already done several times in his lifetime. You know, and just going back to the remarks you made

00:10:04.200 about Mark Morano, he's so right. And I talk to William Macbeth from Save Calgary about this quite a

00:10:11.560 bit. And it is how conservatives have forgotten that it is our school boards and our municipal politics

00:10:19.820 who are the farm teams for our provincial and federal politics. And it's time we got involved

00:10:26.940 there to nip the problem in the bud to talk about conservative principles at that level before these

00:10:33.680 big spending ideas are normalized at the provincial level and the federal level. We have to get involved

00:10:39.880 much sooner. And, you know, we are conservatives, so we're, we're busy with jobs and life and taking

00:10:45.900 care of our own families, because that's what we like to do. But we have to start getting involved

00:10:51.420 a lot sooner to change the conversation before it gets too loud for us to get involved.

00:10:58.700 William Macbeth is one of my favorite young men, and he's absolutely right. And I want to put a plug

00:11:03.540 in for him and the Modern Miracle Network, which I think, you know, Michael Binion, he's been doing a

00:11:08.340 good job of trying to get all of us groups to work together to get this message out. But we were on a call

00:11:14.240 about three months ago, and one of the people said, yeah, well, the left are, you know, they're

00:11:17.760 months ahead of us in this. And I said, well, actually, they're not months ahead of us. They're

00:11:20.920 about 100 years ahead of us. If you Google Regina Manifesto, they talked about this, that, you know,

00:11:26.020 there was some socialist who wanted to create a socialist utopia in the West. And I mean, the war

00:11:31.240 had just got over. So there wasn't a lot of, you know, a lot of, you know, public sentiment for that

00:11:35.620 at the time. But they said, well, if we're going to do that, we'll have to infiltrate the school

00:11:39.000 boards, we'll have to infiltrate the education system, we'll have to infiltrate the

00:11:42.860 bureaucracy and the public service and the political parties. And quite frankly, like when

00:11:48.260 they elected, you know, Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau, my guess is they were checking off a

00:11:54.560 couple of the last boxes on their 100-year list. In any event, that's what we're up against,

00:11:59.400 and we have to start fighting back against it, and we need to work together to do that.

00:12:03.640 Yeah, and that's why I really like your conferences, is because they are a place where people can discuss

00:12:09.280 these ideas, and then walk away with the tools and the arguments to take out into the rest of the

00:12:13.220 world. And that's why I really like this conference, is because you are, unlike so much of what's going

00:12:20.740 on in society at large right now, presenting both sides of the argument, allowing everybody to have

00:12:27.500 the discussion, and make up their own minds with the information before them. And really, we see none

00:12:33.860 of that, especially in the mainstream media. It's just one idea, there's one acceptable opinion,

00:12:39.260 and that's the only thing that you're going to hear about.

00:12:43.020 Well, you're absolutely right. And one of the reasons we've been so successful is we're sort

00:12:47.780 of small enough that we fly under the radar. You may well be getting us onto the radar here.

00:12:52.880 But anyway, we'll take our chances on that. But in any event, some of the bigger groups are afraid of

00:12:58.660 their investors, they're afraid of, you know, the lobby group, they're afraid of the mainstream media

00:13:03.640 attacking them. And so we've had amazing success at attracting speakers who want to come to some

00:13:11.160 place where they can express their opinion in an accepting environment, where we say, look, we may

00:13:15.980 not agree with you, but we want you to come and tell us, you know, what you think, so that we can

00:13:20.140 hopefully understand this. And so we have a better understanding. I think we all know, like the art of

00:13:25.520 war, I mean, lots of times, like you have to understand their position as well as we understand

00:13:29.920 ours. And that's what we're trying to do is bring a group of people together, some of whom are quite

00:13:34.220 adamantly committed to separation, some of whom who believe passionately in defending federalism,

00:13:39.340 we want to be in the same room and talk respectfully about, okay, well, this is their concerns. What do

00:13:43.820 you, you know, what are you going to do to deal with these concerns? And so it's been working quite

00:13:48.360 well for us. And this is the timing of this, as you know, is it couldn't be much better.

00:13:52.720 Isn't that the truth? Now, you are also addressing things that people in the mainstream media,

00:14:01.340 and people sort of, you know what, it's pretty funny how this whole swath of liberals who treated

00:14:09.220 the word nationalism and nationalist as though we're sort of interchangeable with neo-Nazi, all of a sudden

00:14:17.840 becoming staunch nationalists and staunch federalists when Alberta is musing about leaving

00:14:23.060 confederation. But you are addressing some things that they are saying that separatists haven't really

00:14:31.700 considered. For example, you've considered, you have actually a part of your conference that

00:14:40.600 specifically deals with First Nations and Indigenous issues with separation and federalism.

00:14:49.100 Of course, that's, that's one of those issues. Like whether you have one country or whether you

00:14:53.760 have two, if you're having a conference about the future, and you don't include talking about

00:14:58.720 our relationship with the First Nations, well, you're not really having a conference about the

00:15:03.040 future. You're just talking about some things that you're hoping somebody will do. So

00:15:06.140 that's what we intend to do. I'm sorry to say that Ellis Ross on the agenda, it says invited,

00:15:12.200 not confirmed. And I talked to them on Wednesday or Thursday, and they, they, they got over two of

00:15:17.320 the three hurdles they had to go over. They had a couple more questions. And they phoned back late

00:15:21.480 Friday and said they couldn't make it. And I assume one of the hurdles was an elected person speaking

00:15:26.420 outside of their province at a conference that had separation on the agenda. But we're going to have

00:15:31.000 a really good panel on, on, you know, how we're, Ken Coates is well known for his, his thoughts on,

00:15:38.520 well, at least he's well respected for his thoughts on dealing with the First Nation. And John Robson did

00:15:44.280 quite a bit of work with it in days gone by with the Reform Party. And we're going to have a really

00:15:48.320 good discussion, a really good, honest discussion about, like, where we go from here. Everybody agrees

00:15:53.340 we, something should be done with the Indian Act. And then they have a meeting and everybody gets

00:15:56.820 arguing and that's the end of the meeting. And then it just goes on for another few years and

00:16:00.440 nobody's done anything about it. So that's another one where we absolutely intend to address that.

00:16:05.420 The other thing, just while I'm, if you want to call it, like the other thing that bugs me when

00:16:09.040 you talk about our leftist friends, I see some, you know, professor on the news the other night

00:16:13.540 saying, well, they could never separate, like they couldn't do that. There's no way they can do that.

00:16:18.360 And I thought to myself, you know, they're the same people who mock our tar sands. You know what I

00:16:22.380 mean? And they, I mean, you know, they're mocking us by calling us tar sands, but quite frankly,

00:16:26.540 if it was left up to them, it still would be tar sands. It was tar sands for 2 billion years or 2

00:16:31.720 million years. And it still would be if it was left up to them. But fortunately, it wasn't like

00:16:35.740 some young entrepreneurs from, you know, somewhere in the West with, I say, with their young wife and

00:16:40.240 their old halftime, went to Fort McMurray and figured out how to get tar out of sand. And now it's

00:16:44.900 one of the miracles of the modern world, thanks to Albertans' ingenuity. And so, like, you know,

00:16:50.320 like I say, I'm trying to be impartial, but don't tell Alberta what they can't do.

00:16:53.580 You know, and I was talking to William about this the other day on the show. It was pretty

00:16:59.260 demoralizing, I think, for a lot of Albertans to, and a lot of the people in the West to see.

00:17:07.020 And I think they took it personally. I know I did a little bit, and I don't like to take

00:17:11.160 anything in politics personally. When you see the entire West go blue, except for the crazy part of

00:17:17.760 BC and East of Winnipeg, when you see that go red, it's pretty demoralizing to know, to come to the

00:17:28.660 realization that despite our best efforts, despite how much we really want to stay in Canada, I think

00:17:34.660 a lot of people are reluctant separatists. The rest of the country just doesn't care, I guess,

00:17:41.700 to some extent. Or they think that we're just going to take it and they'll vote their way and

00:17:46.380 we'll vote ours. And I think, to some extent, this separatist movement, whatever it turns out to

00:17:52.440 be, whether it's, you know, a new deal in Confederation, or whether we leave, or we join

00:17:56.820 the United States, or we become a territory, or whatever, I think it is a reinvigoration of that

00:18:03.700 can-do attitude. You know, like Justin Trudeau's father said, just watch me. Well, let's steal a

00:18:09.360 little page from him and say, just watch us. We'll decide our own fate. And, you know, the East who

00:18:14.940 underestimates us, you know, they really shouldn't, because we turned a forbidding land into the

00:18:22.200 breadbasket of the country and the economic engine for so long. You're absolutely right. And

00:18:28.080 to me, there's several ways of dealing with this, but I think all fair-minded people agree

00:18:36.180 that the status quo has to go. I think a lot of the people in the East don't realize that we've

00:18:42.460 contributed $620 billion over the last 30 years, more than we've got back. And sure,

00:18:49.900 there's lots of challenges to separation. We think, yeah, well, that's quite a challenge. That

00:18:53.900 would cost us about a billion dollars. I mean, it's okay. Well, we've got 611 left, you know what

00:18:58.580 I mean, over the next 30 years. And, well, that's quite a challenge. And somebody said to me the

00:19:02.440 other day, well, you know, you'd even have to worry about securing your borders. And I said, well,

00:19:06.340 don't worry about securing our borders. We're the only rat-free jurisdiction in the world.

00:19:10.360 We'll put the rat patrol in charge of our borders. Like, we'll be all right. Don't worry. 1.00

00:19:15.440 Yeah. It's that can-do spirit. Like, I don't know how we got the rats out of Alberta, but we did.

00:19:19.860 And no one else has been able to do it. So yeah, it's that can-do spirit. Just watch us. Yes.

00:19:25.160 Yeah. Just watch us. And that's another thing I wanted to make a point about. I wanted to ask you

00:19:29.760 about. The other thing that is sort of the elephant in the room. Actually, I think you have a session

00:19:36.160 called that. Yes, you do. With the Alberta Taxpayers Federation. But people are saying, well,

00:19:43.880 what about your pension plan? What are you going to do? You actually brought in a speaker,

00:19:49.580 Bill Tufts, who's a pension expert, to talk about what happens if Alberta decides to leave

00:19:56.140 the Canadian pension plan and go our own way. You're absolutely right. Because we're younger,

00:20:02.300 and generally speaking, the wages are higher here. So we contribute more to the Canada

00:20:06.340 pension plan. Like, I mean, like, if we had our own pension plan, like, it would be a lot

00:20:12.940 more sustainable than the Canadian pension plan. You know what I mean? So that's another

00:20:16.020 thing where the $20 billion a year that we send down east, while you start putting it into

00:20:20.560 your own pension plan, you know, in a few years, you've got rid of your debt. In a few years,

00:20:24.520 you've topped up the Alberta pension plan. You know what I mean? So those are all challenges

00:20:28.620 that are not insurmountable. And again, when you look at it, I saw Lauren Gunter on, 0.99

00:20:33.220 I think it was an interview with Ezra, saying, you know, when Quebec was talking about leaving,

00:20:38.900 like, you know, some of them truly wanted to go, but at the back of their mind, there was always

00:20:43.580 sort of that nagging, well, what will we do for the $20 billion a year that they've been sending

00:20:47.800 from the West? There was always sort of hanging over their thoughts. But yet, we're the other side of

00:20:52.920 that coin. When someone is saying, well, this will be difficult to do, or that'll be difficult to do,

00:20:57.920 you say, well, that's true, but we'll have $20 billion a year extra to deal with it. So I mean,

00:21:02.760 you know, I think we can figure out a way to sort that out. Now, having said that, I mean,

00:21:07.100 one of the reasons that we need out of this Paris Agreement is we're not going to have the $20

00:21:10.820 billion a year, you know, to send anyone or use ourselves until we make a commitment to the

00:21:16.760 world's energy investors that sort of encourages them to come back here. Some of my friends who have

00:21:22.720 been, you know, like in government said, you know, they were talking to world investors,

00:21:26.360 and they said, you know, you're not even on the short list anymore. You're not even on the long

00:21:31.920 list anymore. Like, so we need to make a lot of changes in Alberta before world investors. I mean,

00:21:36.720 it's sort of happier times for us now that Jason's got elected. Of course, it's disappointing that

00:21:40.820 Justin got elected. But still, we're a long ways from happier times for the world, for the energy

00:21:46.520 people. And we need to all be well aware of that. And, you know, hopefully a lot of people will come to

00:21:52.200 our conference and help us talk about where we go from here. Yeah, I mean, there's really only so

00:21:58.580 much that Jason Kenney can do to spur investment back to Alberta, when you have this behemoth of

00:22:04.240 the federal government, willing to impose a carbon tax on all the provinces who have elected governments

00:22:11.640 to refuse one, that sends a pretty harsh signal to the rest of the world. When you look at the,

00:22:18.980 when you look at that, when you look at the no pipeline bill, when you look at the no, the no

00:22:23.520 tanker ban, and all those things, like if I were a world's energy investor, like, I wouldn't come back

00:22:29.820 just the first time Jason won or the first time Andrew Scheer won, because you think, well, there's

00:22:33.700 no point in us moving billions of dollars there. And then the left wins again. And then our money is,

00:22:38.360 you know, locked in Alberta. So we're an election or two away from happier times for the investment

00:22:44.740 community. And, and I mean, at this point in time, we're not even heading that way, let alone. So we

00:22:49.800 have a lot of challenges ahead of us. We really do. Yeah. And I wanted to talk to you a little bit

00:22:54.100 about Jason Kenney's equalization referendum. He's scheduled that a couple years off. I don't think

00:23:02.740 Alberta can wait to steal a phrase from my friend Prem Singh. That's very far away. And that's not just

00:23:10.820 to deal with equalization. That's just to have the referendum to have the discussion about equalization

00:23:18.680 that's scheduled so far off. I think it's too far off. We need to act right now.

00:23:26.460 Well, there's two things about that. For one thing, I don't understand why we have to vote

00:23:31.420 unanimously in Alberta to have the rest of the country treat us fairly. I sort of was under the

00:23:36.200 impression they should treat us fairly just because we were part of the country. But having said that,

00:23:40.820 if we have to vote to get them to treat us fairly, well, like what I would like to see,

00:23:45.600 let's have the vote before Christmas. And let's start monitoring sometime after Christmas,

00:23:50.220 whether they're actually treating us fairly. Quite frankly, maybe it's good in generating

00:23:54.960 public support for the issue or whatever. But to me, it's like the kids on the playground saying,

00:23:58.860 well, if we all vote, and then we, you know, 80% of us say, you know, the bully shouldn't bully us.

00:24:03.060 Well, then, then we'll just tell him and he'll stop bullying us. You know, not likely,

00:24:07.580 you know, mostly what a bully needs is a quite frankly, I don't know if we're allowed to talk

00:24:11.100 about this on the TV or not, but they're supposed to, what they understand is a punch in the nose.

00:24:14.940 And I mean, to me, the rest of Canada needs a wake up call. And that's what we're having at our

00:24:18.520 conferences. We're talking about, okay, I mean, some people want to fix it. Some people want to

00:24:23.420 leave, but we want to, we want to have it sorted out sooner rather than later. I've seen over the

00:24:28.300 last 24 hours, I've seen suggestions that we should have not a vote on equalization, but a vote on

00:24:33.500 separation. Some people want to do it in May. Some people want to do it next year. Some people

00:24:37.620 want to do it in two years, but that's one of the things we're going to talk about at the end of

00:24:41.320 our conference is we're going to say, look, right. I had a medical, I have to get a medical now every

00:24:47.100 year. And my doctor was even older than me, you know, patted me on my somewhat protruding stomach

00:24:51.860 and said, Danny, too much talk and not enough action. And I mean, quite frankly, I think that's

00:24:56.340 what we're getting in a lot of these things is too much talk and not enough action. And so I think

00:25:00.500 what we need to do is schedule a vote on separation. And then the separatists can go

00:25:05.800 away from our conference and they can make their case to Alberta voters on how they would deal with

00:25:10.120 those challenges. The people who believe in federalism can go away and say, look, the clock

00:25:14.380 is ticking. They're going to be voting, let's just say a year from now. So if we want to, if we want to

00:25:20.240 fix the equalization, if we want to fix corporate welfare, if we want to get rid of the, the tanker ban

00:25:25.680 and the no pipeline bills, we need to get it done before the day they vote, or they may well be

00:25:30.520 dealing with us from a separate country. Now, Danny, I could talk to you all day. I really could.

00:25:37.540 I would enjoy it. Yeah. But I want to give you a chance to tell everybody how they can, if,

00:25:43.840 if space is still available, get access to the conference and how they can find out what's going

00:25:50.580 on at the Economic Freedom Association of Alberta. Well, they can go to our website, which is

00:25:57.580 freedomtalk.ca. And there's a, that we're pretty low cost outfit. We're all volunteers, but it just

00:26:03.480 says register. And it takes you to the donate button, which you can either donate with PayPal,

00:26:08.220 if you have a PayPal account, or you can donate by credit card. And there's a note there that says

00:26:14.480 a $200 donation will be considered a registration in the conference. You know, we're conservative,

00:26:20.580 because we said you can donate $200 or more. Like we always leave the option open. I'm hoping

00:26:25.820 Bernie Sanders will register. I think he always likes to pay more, you know what I mean? But in

00:26:29.540 any event, that's what you can do. And so you can follow us at freedomtalk.ca. And there's a place

00:26:35.280 there where you can sign up for our newsletter. And you can follow me on Twitter at Danny Hozak for

00:26:40.220 updates. But again, and like I say, if you're, if you don't like dealing with the, if you don't like

00:26:45.920 dealing with the internet and, you know, PayPal and credit cards and all that stuff, they can send

00:26:50.240 me an email or they can call me and we can deal with them. They can, they can just meet us at the

00:26:55.700 door and give us a check if they'd like to. So yes, registration is between eight and nine next

00:27:00.080 Friday morning. We're at the, it used to be the Capri then, now it's the Cambridge, which is on

00:27:04.860 3310 50th Avenue in Red Deer. They've been very gracious to us. We've already like outstripped the room

00:27:11.560 that we had booked. So they've moved us into the, the big event center. Thank you very much,

00:27:15.880 Cambridge Hotel. And then they will just curtain off. As you know, the, I think it'll hold a

00:27:20.740 thousand people. We're hoping to have 300, maybe 400, but they're going to curtain it off. So we

00:27:25.140 have a nice room. So they've been very, very gracious to us to sort of make space available

00:27:29.540 for us. So thank you. Thanks for the visit. And I think that's, that's about it.

00:27:34.360 Yeah, you bet, Danny. Hopefully I'll make it, make it down on Red Deer for at least one of the

00:27:40.200 days. That would be great. We'd be, we'll, we'll look forward to seeing you and we'll

00:27:44.440 hopefully talk to you then. Okay. You got it. Talk soon. Take care.

00:27:58.260 I've said it before, and I will say it again, whatever happens with Alberta's relationship

00:28:03.080 with the rest of Canada, it's going to be decided by Albertans having our fate and our futures

00:28:09.880 controlled by elitist people, thousands of miles away, people who resent our best resource,

00:28:16.040 despite its contribution to the economic growth of this great country ended October 21st, 2019.

00:28:23.160 That was the breaking point. The reelection of Justin Trudeau by the rest of the country,

00:28:28.440 in spite of the pain he has inflicted on us in the West, these last four years, things are changing

00:28:35.460 and our political class, both conservative and liberal are going to do everything they can to

00:28:40.900 stop the paradigm from changing. So beware, things are going to get a little Western out there. Well,

00:28:47.320 everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here

00:28:52.880 in the same time, in the same place next weekend. Remember, don't let the government tell you that

00:28:57.740 you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - November 14, 2019

Alberta separatist sentiment demands open debate (Guest： Danny Hozack)

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