Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ A Clockwork Orange was meant as fiction — not policy blueprint

00:00:00.000 Tonight, A Clockwork Orange seems to be less about speculative fiction these days and more

00:00:23.120 about actual reality. I'll explain why. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the release of

00:00:44.400 Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel of the same

00:00:50.560 title published in 1962. A Clockwork Orange is a disturbing tale, but what is perhaps even more

00:00:59.120 disturbing is that in 55 years since the film was originally released, certain elements of this sci-fi

00:01:07.440 saga are shockingly becoming true. Now, if you haven't read or seen A Clockwork Orange, I advise

00:01:16.100 that you put it on your to-do list. The film depicts a dystopian Britain of the near future.

00:01:23.220 The nation is overrun with young gangs carrying out violent criminal acts. But the desperate

00:01:29.780 government of the day isn't cracking down on these criminals. Rather, it's seemingly embracing a kinder,

00:01:38.780 gentler approach to crime by attempting to reprogram the hooligans. And when that doesn't work, well,

00:01:47.740 the government sometimes goes out of its way to actually reward the hooligans. Tell me, does this

00:01:55.020 ring familiar in terms of contemporary Canadian politics, as well as our so-called criminal justice

00:02:02.620 system? You know how the worst of the worst are still granted bail? How sentences are laughably

00:02:09.420 lenient, even for the most horrific crimes? How serial killers are moved to medium security facilities?

00:02:17.980 A hug-a-thug philosophy is now routinely embraced, rather than any sort of deterrence. It's downright baffling.

00:02:26.860 Meanwhile, the federal liberals pretend that the real war on crime means confiscating the firearms

00:02:34.620 of law-abiding Canadian citizens, as though that will have any effect whatsoever, other than virtue

00:02:42.860 signaling. Oh, and God forbid you actually defend yourself from a weaponized intruder invading your

00:02:50.540 home in the wee hours of the morning. You'll have the book thrown at you. It's sick.

00:02:56.860 In any event, one of the methods employed for reprogramming the thugs depicted in a clockwork

00:03:05.260 orange is an experimental psychiatric strategy called the Luvico technique, combining some mood-altering

00:03:15.020 drugs with constant exposure to imagery depicting violence. The theory is that the patient will be so

00:03:23.180 sickened by the very idea of actually doing anything violent that he'll physically be unable to carry

00:03:31.500 out criminal acts. Check out this scene in which the film's protagonist, the incarcerated murderer,

00:03:39.420 Alex DeLarge, undergoes the Ludvico treatment in exchange for shortening his prison sentence.

00:03:47.020 You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultra-violence and killing is wrong,

00:03:54.860 wrong and terribly wrong. I've learned the lesson, sir. I see now what I've never seen before.

00:04:02.700 I'm cured. Praise God. You're not cured yet, boy. But sirs,

00:04:10.300 missus, I see that it's wrong. It's wrong because it's like against society. It's wrong because

00:04:20.060 everybody has the right to never be happy without being tom-chop tonight. No, no, boy. You really

00:04:26.940 must leave it to us and be cheerful about it. In less than a fortnight now, you will be a free man.

00:04:32.860 You know, I think former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a fan of the fictional Ludovico technique.

00:04:40.540 Trudeau seemed to be very supportive of a low-rent, real-life version of this fictional psychiatric

00:04:49.180 method. I hearken back to 2017 when blackface deemed that it was improper to incarcerate returning 0.77

00:04:58.540 ISIS fighters to Canada. After all, that might be considered not very culturally sensitive in some

00:05:07.820 circles. And hey, what the heck, boys will be boys, you know, even if those lads subscribe to bombings

00:05:14.060 and beheadings, sexual slavery, setting infidels ablaze and throwing gays from rooftops so they can call 1.00

00:05:22.220 upon distant supporters to carry out acts of global terrorism. But never mind. Let's forgive 0.99

00:05:29.660 and forget, shall we? Besides, those chaps might vote liberal in future elections. And let's never 1.00

00:05:37.420 forget this Trudeau soundbite for the ages. This is not the standards we expect. Immigrants, 1.00

00:05:43.820 Canadians, all of us who are here expect that we would have a minimum bar that people would not,

00:05:48.380 people who come here would not be guilty of trying to plan terrorist attacks against this country. 0.97

00:05:53.900 Mr. Harper, a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian and you devalue, you devalue the citizenship of

00:06:00.860 every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for

00:06:07.660 anyone. We have the rule of law in this country and you can't take away citizens like what someone does.

00:06:13.420 Yes, a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, even if that Canadian is hell-bent on a mission to

00:06:22.940 destroy Canada. So instead of the stick, Trudeau employed the carrot, hoping to reprogram these

00:06:30.220 aspiring terrorists. That's right, embracing liberal hug-a-thug strategies. Justin sought to

00:06:38.140 transform homegrown Sharia soldiers into model Canadian citizens. Since the Ludovico treatment 1.00

00:06:47.340 does not actually exist, part of the way in which authorities reprogrammed these wannabe Islamist 1.00

00:06:56.140 terrorists was to have them take part in poetry classes? Oh yes, I do not jest, folks. And really,

00:07:06.860 can you imagine? I mean, poetry classes for Islamist terrorists? What would that look like? Maybe 0.99

00:07:16.060 something like this? Well, Miss Muffet sat on a tuffer. Eating occurred some way. Long came a spidey,

00:07:27.740 sat down beside, he said, hey, what's in the bowl, bitch? Oh! You know, you gotta wonder, did the 1.00

00:07:35.820 reprogramming of these jihadis also involve drag queen story time? And if not, why not? Well, actually,

00:07:44.300 I think we know the answer to that, don't we? Back to the film, in a subtle scene, the government's

00:07:51.180 rationale for backing the Ludovico treatment is indeed revealed. Check out this clip, in which the

00:07:59.820 Minister of the Interior has a conversation with a prison warden as they tour the jail yard for

00:08:06.860 potential human guinea pigs. How many to a cell? Four, just block, sir.

00:08:14.620 Cram criminals together and what do you get? Concentrated criminality. Crime in the midst of

00:08:19.980 punishment. I agree, sir. What we need are larger prisons, more money. Oh, not a chance, my dear

00:08:25.660 sir. The government can't be concerned any longer without moaning penological theories. Soon we may be

00:08:31.740 needing all our prison space for political offenders. Common criminals like these are best

00:08:36.380 dealt with on a purely curative basis. Kill that criminal reflex at all. Did you catch that line 0.85

00:08:42.540 from the Minister of the Interior? Quote, soon we may be needing all our prison space for political

00:08:50.860 offenders, end quote. Indeed, is this the real reason why violent monsters are being sprung from

00:08:57.580 Canadian jails so that there's enough space for political prisoners? Do you really think that's

00:09:04.700 so far-fetched? If so, I urge you to solicit the opinion of Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Leach. What's more,

00:09:14.060 with a plethora of censorship bills afoot, it's only a matter of time when these bills are enacted into

00:09:22.140 law, thereby creating a new criminal class? Oh yeah, sure, the only crime these so-called criminals

00:09:30.060 will be committing will be wrong thought. Yet, for a card-carrying liberal these days, wrong thought might

00:09:38.300 be the most heinous offense of all. Again, going back to the film, the Ludovico treatment is only one

00:09:45.820 element of the future UK government's crackdown on crime. Seemingly embracing the old adage of,

00:09:53.820 if you can't beat them, join them. The government goes on to embrace a bizarre job creation scheme

00:10:00.860 in which convicted criminals are hired as police officers. Indeed, later in the film, the chemically

00:10:09.660 castrated Alex learns about this the hard way when he has the misfortune of meeting up with a couple

00:10:18.220 of his former colleagues, who now don the uniforms of law enforcement.

00:10:24.380 All right, all right, get up and out! Come on! Stop breaking the states' piece, you naughty boys!

00:10:30.620 Back away! All right with you! What's the trouble, sir? 0.93

00:10:38.540 Oh no!

00:10:43.660 Well! Well, well, well! Well, well, well, well! If it isn't now, Alex!

00:10:54.380 Long time no video, Drew! How it goes? It's impossible! I don't believe it!

00:11:01.020 Evidence of the old glasses! Nothing up our sleeves! No magic, little Alex! A job for two,

00:11:09.100 who are now of job age! The police!

00:11:15.100 Alas, what follows next is Alex enduring a severe beating at the hands of these two constables,

00:11:22.700 proving that you can put a thug in a uniform, but what remains is still, well, a garden-variety thug.

00:11:30.300 And I make mention of this scene because of an incredible news story that broke earlier this month.

00:11:37.100 Check out this story by Sky News, headlined,

00:11:41.740 Dereliction of Duty, Met Police Relaxed Vetting to Meet Recruitment Targets.

00:11:48.860 Incredibly, it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police in London had hired more than 130 officers who were actually convicted criminals.

00:12:01.180 This included David Garrick and Cliff Mitchell, both of whom are serial rapists.

00:12:09.580 Mitchell, 26, was given a life sentence for attacks on two victims over nine years and was initially rejected from the police force because of a previous allegation of child rape.

00:12:26.460 But Sky News notes that a vetting panel wanted to reduce so-called disproportionality towards ethnic minority groups.

00:12:38.140 So, the panel overturned the decision and Mitchell was indeed allowed to join the force in August 2020.

00:12:47.660 As for Derrick, he is described as one of the UK's worst ever sex offenders.

00:12:55.420 He joined the Met in 2001, but a re-vetting error in 2017 meant he was allowed to work as an armed police officer until he was arrested in 2021.

00:13:07.700 Even so, somehow, the likes of Mitchell and Garrick and more than 100 others were deemed to be the right stuff.

00:13:24.260 They got to wear police uniforms and carry guns, much like Alex's former partners in crime, Georgie and Dim.

00:13:32.680 Isn't DEI fantastic?

00:13:35.400 I flagged this example because it increasingly seems like Canada is only about five years behind the UK when it comes to wackadoodle liberal policies meant to jettison democratic principles.

00:13:53.240 Spoiler alert!

00:13:55.120 Things don't go according to plan for the government in A Clockwork Orange.

00:13:59.580 Indeed, in the end, the film hints that Alex will soon be reverting back to his thuggish ways.

00:14:07.980 Even so, in the final scene, Alex is literally being spoon-fed in a hospital bed by the Minister of the Interior.

00:14:17.260 The Minister also lavishes gifts upon Alex and offers him a well-paying public sector job.

00:14:24.540 I don't know, kind of like convicted murderer Omar Khadr being given a $10.5 million check due to this homegrown Al-Qaeda terrorist experiencing hurt feelings.

00:14:39.640 So, from reprogramming wannabe jihadists via poetry classes, to hiring convicted criminals to serve as police officers, to emptying out jails to make room for political prisoners,

00:14:55.860 It would appear that the world that was depicted in A Clockwork Orange has shockingly morphed from speculative fiction to entrenched reality.

00:15:10.000 I wonder if author Anthony Burgess and director Stanley Kubrick are rolling in their graves right now.

00:15:17.680 Well, folks, a ton of response to my commentary about the curious case of Stephanie Redlick.

00:15:32.780 She is the woman in North Toronto who allegedly runs a horse rescue operation. 0.80

00:15:39.000 The funny thing is, horses that fall into her stewardship need to be rescued, otherwise they get sick and often die.

00:15:49.300 It was shocking.

00:15:51.180 In any event, let's get to some of the comments.

00:15:54.060 Fran G says,

00:15:55.780 Deport her and her family and the problems for them poor horses. 1.00

00:16:00.580 Shame on them, but being a psychopath, she has no soul. 1.00

00:16:04.940 Well, I don't think you can deport Stephanie Redlick and her family members. 0.85

00:16:10.260 I believe they are Canadian citizens.

00:16:12.800 But when it comes to being a psychopath, I truly believe in her case, there is an element of mental illness here in terms of what she does to these horses.

00:16:23.980 And hopefully, she'll get help for that.

00:16:27.560 Moving on.

00:16:28.540 Peter Renshaw comments,

00:16:31.100 What is remarkable is Stephanie Redlick's glibness in her responses to David Menzies' questions, even in the face of the most incriminating facts he confronted her with.

00:16:43.680 Also notable is her persecution complex and repeated blame shifting. 0.76

00:16:49.660 It has been noted by some authors that these are classic traits among sociopaths.

00:16:56.380 Well, I think you're absolutely correct, Peter.

00:17:00.260 What was disturbing, too, was when I asked her about why everyone is ganging up on her, her words, animal welfare services, various police services, the equine community.

00:17:19.200 Basically, she said they were jealous of her success.

00:17:26.340 Well, there is no success.

00:17:28.620 And it's a preposterous argument to make based on the documented evidence, based on the photographic evidence.

00:17:37.700 Stephanie Redlick is a horse's worst friend. 0.94

00:17:41.360 And Paul Schofield comments, About halfway through her very slick rap, I got the feeling that she doth dissemble too much, trying to prove Mr. Lincoln wrong in his assessment about fooling all the people all of the time, I suppose.

00:18:00.040 Well, the thing is, no matter what, it is never, ever her fault.

00:18:05.380 Sorry, Stephanie.

00:18:06.460 Nobody, especially you, is perfect.

00:18:10.060 And finally, Bruce Acheson comments, I wouldn't trust Stephanie to look after a pet rock. 0.53

00:18:16.460 I remember those.

00:18:18.180 If she was a genuine caretaker of horses, why are there so many angry people? 0.91

00:18:24.080 People are bound to disagree, but so many people, that makes me wonder, let's hope this woman is found guilty of any of these crimes and put away for a long time. 0.99

00:18:37.700 And you know something, Bruce?

00:18:38.680 What the real tragedy is, is how the system is broken. 0.79

00:18:42.420 Even with all this preponderance of evidence, even though Stephanie Redlick's reputation is trash, she can still, today, go out and buy a horse. 0.88

00:18:56.360 No muss, no fuss. 0.98

00:18:58.740 That has to be changed, and that's on the animal welfare services people.

00:19:05.920 Make sure animal abusers don't get the care for animals in the first place.

00:19:11.740 Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's edition of the Ezra Levent Show.

00:19:16.160 Ezra, as you may know, is in Israel on a very important mission.

00:19:20.520 There will be another guest host in this space tomorrow night.

00:19:24.680 In the meantime, stay safe and stay sane.

00:19:34.780 It's not just on the outskirts anymore.

00:19:37.500 Alberta's independence is at the forefront here in Canada, particularly this year.

00:19:42.460 A referendum is expected to take place later this year in the fall.

00:19:46.200 And for the time being, groups like the Alberta Prosperity Project are going around collecting signatures from Albertans who say that they will vote for independence in this referendum.

00:19:55.880 There are hundreds of thousands of signatures being collected and sought during this process and at events like this here in Calgary.

00:20:04.160 Now, throughout the day, from 11 a.m. going on to probably 11 p.m. tonight, people have constantly been coming in to sign that they want to leave Canada, leaving Canada's confederation specifically.

00:20:14.940 So we got in there, we talked to some of them and the organizer, Geoffrey Rath, of this event to find out a little bit more about what exactly is happening here in Alberta.

00:20:23.480 Is it time for Alberta to leave Canada?

00:20:25.600 Yes!

00:20:26.760 What are you doing here?

00:20:27.540 Well, I'm here because I love Alberta.

00:20:29.940 And, of course, I don't want to see us become any more further into a problem that Canada is already in.

00:20:36.400 Because if you look at the past 10 years of Trudeau and now Kearney, we're going downhill, okay?

00:20:42.840 And though I'm pretty young and all that, I can see, like, you know, since 2020, you know, like, we've been so stabbed in the back.

00:20:50.340 And not just, like, Alberta, but all of Canada.

00:20:53.260 Seriously.

00:20:53.880 So I think the best thing we can do is get together and talk separation.

00:20:58.280 Seriously.

00:20:58.540 To get away from Ottawa and keep the money and everything here and become the wealthy country that we should have been.

00:21:06.700 Yeah, well, we've been kind of done wrong by the Canadian government with these ridiculous equalization policies.

00:21:12.580 And I feel like Alberta's been losing out on a lot of money. 0.97

00:21:15.200 We've been ripped off so many times that, I don't know, it's time that we stand up for ourselves.

00:21:21.840 We need more freedom in this country.

00:21:22.820 Everything is coming down to, ultimately, you know, censorship and our economy has plummeted.

00:21:29.940 And we really do, you know, need a bit of an independence.

00:21:33.160 We need to use resources that are in the ground.

00:21:35.020 I'm fed up with Ottawa.

00:21:36.780 I'm fed up with Confederation.

00:21:38.220 I'm a pro-separatist and I want to show support.

00:21:40.840 I mean, I've already, I've been to a dozen of these events.

00:21:43.560 I've already signed a petition, but I still wanted to come out.

00:21:45.780 I mean, this is, this is an event.

00:21:48.520 This is a huge event that you don't want to miss out.

00:21:50.760 Don't tread on me.

00:21:51.520 A lot of students right now work really, really hard, up to 40 to 60 hours a week,

00:21:55.700 just so they can pay the bills, so they can get tuition, so they can actually make a living.

00:21:59.940 You know what happens?

00:22:00.640 The government comes and they take every penny out of their pockets.

00:22:03.800 Well, they're already struggling.

00:22:05.000 I know many students that live paycheck to paycheck, where even if taxes go up even by 1%,

00:22:09.120 they can't continue their education.

00:22:11.220 They'll be kicked out of their program.

00:22:12.660 So students want to be left alone.

00:22:14.020 They're willing to put in the work.

00:22:15.180 They're not lazy.

00:22:16.040 I know a lot of people say a lot of bad things about young people, saying that they're lazy,

00:22:19.820 but we're not.

00:22:20.320 We're here to put in the work.

00:22:21.860 We just want to work.

00:22:23.080 Let us.

00:22:23.620 We don't want the government to come in here and stop us anymore.

00:22:26.620 Why are we left alone?

00:22:27.680 I'm here as press.

00:22:28.740 I'm also here supporting the movement.

00:22:30.740 It's time to get Alberta back to what Alberta used to be, you know, where you can come here,

00:22:36.200 get a job, have a family, have a, you know, safe place to stay.

00:22:40.620 That's been ripped underneath our feet.

00:22:42.620 So enough is enough.

00:22:43.560 It's time to step up.

00:22:45.280 This is one of the ways that we're doing it.

00:22:47.440 We're organizing.

00:22:48.640 We're, you know, getting the word out there.

00:22:50.580 And hopefully this goes through because enough is enough.

00:22:54.820 We give you billions of dollars to foreign aid and nothing comes back to Albertans.

00:22:58.860 You know, one in six Albertans right now are having food insecurities.

00:23:02.600 We can't have that, you know, from a place that produces billions of dollars of revenue

00:23:08.300 and we have food insecurities and we are in debt.

00:23:11.340 Sorry, that's not happening.

00:23:12.860 We're part of this growing movement and we're excited to see the progress

00:23:17.240 that the independence referendum has gained so far.

00:23:22.580 It's been a long journey getting to this moment.

00:23:25.500 And we're very proud to be part of that action

00:23:28.560 and to you supporting the Alberta independence movement.

00:23:31.140 I'm here to sign the referendum like anyone else

00:23:34.820 to stand for Alberta's future, for my kids' future,

00:23:37.860 and for the future of this province.

00:23:40.140 And I do believe if you cannot change it or break it,

00:23:43.200 Canada's not going to change for better in time to break that relation

00:23:46.080 with that liberal government.

00:23:48.080 It's not Carney's issue.

00:23:49.280 It's not Rudy's issue.

00:23:50.800 It's the system they have the issue.

00:23:52.660 And regardless, we change the name.

00:23:54.280 The system is still there to bully us, to destroy us.

00:23:57.620 And as an immigrant who came 25 years ago,

00:24:00.340 I could see the dramatic change from bad to worse on a daily basis.

00:24:03.460 If you would tell me 25 years ago to sign the referendum,

00:24:06.140 I'll tell you what the heck are you talking about.

00:24:08.720 But now I do believe we need to sign all of us

00:24:11.860 because the pain we are facing, the challenge we are facing,

00:24:15.140 especially young men and women,

00:24:16.540 we need to do something to protect their future.

00:24:18.820 Firstly, could you introduce yourself?

00:24:20.320 Yeah, Jeffrey Rath.

00:24:21.280 I'm with stayfreealberta.com.

00:24:23.160 And what is this event behind us?

00:24:24.600 What this event behind us is a celebration of our signing event

00:24:28.280 that we had today or that's going on downstairs.

00:24:30.120 We have 150 canvassers in the bottom of the Big Four building today,

00:24:33.360 running tens of thousands of Calgarians

00:24:35.980 through the petition signing process and getting petitions signed.

00:24:39.160 They're coming to sign an official petition

00:24:41.340 with official Elections Alberta canvassers

00:24:45.400 that says that we're going to have a referendum asking the question,

00:24:49.280 do you agree that the province of Alberta

00:24:51.540 shall cease to be part of Canada to become an independent state?

00:24:55.700 We're really excited about how it's going.

00:24:57.460 I was laughing today because, of course,

00:24:59.480 you know, all the success that we've had

00:25:01.440 with our petition signing campaign so far across the province

00:25:06.380 and literally miles of Albertans lined up

00:25:09.080 into the cold January night.

00:25:11.020 Poor little Tommy Lukasik today had to admit defeat.

00:25:13.980 He was literally throwing the towel in at the first quarter

00:25:16.160 and acknowledging that the separation referendum is inevitable.

00:25:21.880 So, yeah, so we're working forward with that.

00:25:23.740 We obviously feel the same way.

00:25:25.360 I mean, to get to 178,000 signatures,

00:25:28.540 we need 11,000 signatures a week.

00:25:30.940 We're crushing that.

00:25:32.280 But our goal, you know, our goal is to get well over a million signatures.

00:25:35.740 Our feeling is if we can get 1.8 million people to sign,

00:25:39.080 which were the number of people who participated

00:25:40.940 in the last provincial election,

00:25:42.720 I don't even think we'll need a referendum, right?

00:25:45.000 I mean, that'll be all the mandate the government of Alberta

00:25:47.420 will need to move directly to, you know,

00:25:50.800 to a declaration of independence.

00:25:52.820 So, you know, we're working forward as hard as we can to get there.

00:25:56.280 You know, if we don't, I always tell my daughter,

00:25:58.000 it's like aim for the stars.

00:26:00.060 And if you only get to the moon,

00:26:01.020 you still accomplish more than 99.9% of the people in the world.

00:26:04.660 And, you know, we're confident we're going to get the signatures we need.

00:26:08.420 We're confident that we're going to get to a referendum this year.

00:26:12.740 And we're confident that we're going to vote Alberta the hell out of Canada.

00:26:15.160 What is your plan to address Western alienation?

00:26:17.940 Well, a couple of things.

00:26:20.480 I, as you know, were born in Northwest Territories,

00:26:23.400 grew up in Alberta.

00:26:25.760 I resile to no one in terms of my understanding of the West,

00:26:30.080 my connection to the West.

00:26:33.000 And I'm part of a government that governs for all of the country

00:26:37.800 and very much for the West.

00:26:39.820 We, I think such dramatic comments are unhelpful

00:26:45.340 at a time when Canadians are coming together.

00:26:48.360 How much of your grievance is directed

00:26:50.240 at the Federal Liberal Party of Canada?

00:26:52.920 All of it.

00:26:53.640 Quite a bit.

00:26:54.140 Quite a bit.

00:26:54.680 Over 80%.

00:26:55.580 Almost all of it.

00:26:56.860 Yeah.

00:26:57.360 It's 10 years of disappointment.

00:26:58.820 How much we pay and how much, like,

00:27:00.860 they don't care about us, like, at all.

00:27:02.680 Not just Albertans,

00:27:03.680 but just all of us who have this moral value to,

00:27:07.100 you know, hey, like, we just want to continue

00:27:10.320 on living our lives and kind of thing

00:27:12.260 and keep the peace.

00:27:14.100 But, you know, that's not how they want to go.

00:27:16.320 Mark Carney is responsible for a majority of the issues

00:27:18.420 that we are facing,

00:27:19.100 whether it be high taxation, mass immigration,

00:27:22.600 high housing prices, high grocery costs.

00:27:26.220 I've gone and tried to talk to him about supply management,

00:27:28.340 the issues that rural Burns are facing.

00:27:30.360 We want to sell our milk.

00:27:31.680 We can't do that.

00:27:32.480 We get told that we have to throw it all away.

00:27:34.400 At the end of the day,

00:27:35.100 there are some issues that are obviously

00:27:36.860 municipal and provincial,

00:27:38.120 but a lot of them, I will say,

00:27:40.560 comes from the issues of our Liberal Party,

00:27:42.740 from both Mark Carney

00:27:43.600 and the previous Prime Minister, Joseph Trudeau. 0.99

00:27:45.900 F*** Trudeau. F*** Carney, man. 1.00

00:27:47.860 Yeah, well, Carney, 1.00

00:27:48.600 he was supposed to change the Liberal Party.

00:27:50.320 Did he not change it? 1.00

00:27:51.560 F*** that s***, no. 0.98

00:27:52.500 They're doing a good job of helping Alberta 0.99

00:27:55.120 want to become its own independent state.

00:27:58.260 Like, it's destroying Canada.

00:28:00.120 Well, but didn't Mark Carney bring change

00:28:01.960 for the Liberal Party

00:28:02.660 and they got this MOU for Alberta?

00:28:04.320 Doesn't this make you happy?

00:28:05.600 No, it does not.

00:28:06.660 Because it's all just paperwork.

00:28:09.560 There's nothing that's going to go through.

00:28:11.540 And Carney, with his belief system,

00:28:14.260 he doesn't believe in pipelines.

00:28:16.180 Like, he has no problem making money off pipelines

00:28:18.400 from all over the world from his investments,

00:28:20.260 but he doesn't want Alberta to prosper in any way.

00:28:24.460 Bad management from Trudeau,

00:28:26.540 bad management from Carney.

00:28:28.160 I believe there's going to be a snap election

00:28:29.960 pretty soon here in the spring.

00:28:31.480 Something has to be done.

00:28:33.580 Mark Carney is not living up to what he said he was going to do.

00:28:38.000 And it's starting to show.

00:28:39.960 You know, take a look at 10 cities

00:28:41.760 all throughout every single major city and province.

00:28:45.420 This is not Canada.

00:28:47.180 You know, our amputations have skyrocketed in our country.

00:28:51.600 Amputations.

00:28:52.220 Not from, like, you know, being sick,

00:28:54.140 from frostbite,

00:28:54.980 and good people working two full-time jobs

00:28:57.840 working more than 40 hours a week

00:28:59.780 and sleeping in their car.

00:29:01.300 So this is one of the ways for us to step up

00:29:03.360 and, you know, say,

00:29:04.740 hey, federal government, enough is enough.

00:29:07.020 It's time for you guys to either start cutting taxes

00:29:10.220 or figuring something out.

00:29:11.780 Because, you know,

00:29:13.180 there's too many good people that are not getting ahead.

00:29:16.060 And this brain drain needs to stop.

00:29:17.920 I don't think Carney would survive

00:29:19.300 the next confidence vote in the House of Commons.

00:29:21.420 He has been the de facto prime minister for a year,

00:29:24.380 and he's done nothing.

00:29:25.240 Like, he campaigned on having Trump as a boogeyman.

00:29:29.780 That's getting, you know, wearing on people.

00:29:32.260 And then he said he was going to get us a better deal.

00:29:33.940 Now he's getting us in bed with the Chinese, 1.00

00:29:35.660 which I don't think anybody wants that.

00:29:37.920 In fact, he specifically said during the campaign last year

00:29:43.140 that he considered China to be our biggest threat.

00:29:46.020 Now he's in bed with them. 0.92

00:29:47.000 That's insanity.

00:29:47.600 I've seen the inequalities and how poorly Alberta is treated. 1.00

00:29:52.040 Like, and it's all because of Ottawa.

00:29:53.700 It's all because of the people out east who vote.

00:29:56.220 They have a huge block,

00:29:57.360 and then they pass policies that they approve of

00:30:00.720 without consideration for us.

00:30:02.200 Like, the gun grab is a perfect example.

00:30:04.180 Like, we're helpless to affect policy.

00:30:09.100 This liberal government failed us at every level.

00:30:11.280 Even the Conservative Party of Canada,

00:30:12.740 the ones they take lead.

00:30:13.820 I love Stephen Harper.

00:30:14.840 He was the best prime minister, I believe.

00:30:17.040 But in 2015, what did he do for us?

00:30:19.520 Literally nothing.

00:30:20.580 As Albertans was getting bullied, free ride for everyone.

00:30:23.400 Liberal consider us oppositions.

00:30:25.180 They don't give a damn about us.

00:30:26.760 Conservatives, they know we're in their back pocket,

00:30:28.780 so they don't give a damn about us.

00:30:30.180 Both of them, they want to please Eastern Canadians.

00:30:32.360 For anyone who has hesitation not to sign the referendum,

00:30:35.560 let's sign as a leverage tool, like Quebec.

00:30:37.840 Every time Quebec wants something from Ottawa,

00:30:40.020 they say, we need to separate.

00:30:41.460 Here you go, take whatever you want.

00:30:42.800 If we do the same, we have the leverage tools.

00:30:45.960 And I'll tell you one thing.

00:30:47.200 This country is going down.

00:30:49.940 Carney said yesterday, it's a true statement,

00:30:51.960 but he didn't say the proper fact.

00:30:53.760 Yes, Canada strives because we're Canadian,

00:30:55.840 but we're not Canadian anymore.

00:30:57.440 You have over 5 million people now.

00:31:00.240 Their refugee claim has been rejected.

00:31:02.700 They're still mooring around the country,

00:31:04.540 all over the place, with no control.

00:31:06.320 No one telling them where to do, what to do.

00:31:07.940 And we are paying for their health care, for their work as a taxpayer.

00:31:12.400 Something needs to be done about it.

00:31:14.100 Myself, I'm an immigrant, and I'm pro-immigrant.

00:31:16.440 I'm a pro-controlled immigrant.

00:31:17.920 But this refugee banner needs to be stopped, 1.00

00:31:20.540 and we need to do something about it.

00:31:22.180 Liberal government, it's the government of everyone,

00:31:25.820 other than Canadian people, especially Alberta.

00:31:27.840 As an Alberta MP candidate,

00:31:30.540 how will you better our province's relationship with Ottawa?

00:31:33.400 Look, I don't know if it's necessarily

00:31:35.100 bettering the relationship with Ottawa.

00:31:37.040 I think it's standing up and fighting for Alberta.

00:31:40.220 Ottawa has been telling Alberta to pay up and shut up

00:31:43.940 for the last 10 years,

00:31:45.520 and we need someone who will stand up

00:31:47.680 and fight back against that attitude.

00:31:50.520 And that's what I'm going to do.

00:31:52.400 The West needs to have fair treatment in confederation.

00:31:55.560 That means giving our farmers fair treatment.

00:32:00.000 In this trade war, for example,

00:32:02.400 Mr. Carney said nothing and did nothing

00:32:04.140 for the canola farmers until I spoke up about it.

00:32:07.420 You know, yesterday I went out and said,

00:32:08.960 look, it's been days now since the Chinese 1.00

00:32:12.680 have announced this new tariff on canola farmers.

00:32:16.360 The Prime Minister had said nothing,

00:32:18.200 even though he'd managed to put out a tweet

00:32:20.360 on International Cat Day.

00:32:22.500 And what do you know, later that afternoon,

00:32:24.560 he said, okay, okay, I'm going to do something on canola.

00:32:26.720 Well, that shows that having a strong national leader

00:32:29.280 amplifying the concerns of local residents

00:32:32.280 in Battle River Crowfoot will be a major advantage.

00:32:35.740 So you can count on me to use my megaphone as leader

00:32:39.560 to fight for oil and gas workers

00:32:41.540 in Hardesty, in Camrose, Consort, Coronation, Castor, and beyond.

00:32:51.920 You can count on me to fight for the prison guards here

00:32:54.340 in Drumheller, who are facing death every day

00:32:58.360 from the chaos in the prisons that Liberals have unleashed.

00:33:01.820 You can count on me to fight for the farmers.

00:33:03.620 So having a Pierre Paglia fight for this region

00:33:07.780 in Canada's parliament as leader of the party

00:33:11.020 will be an enormous advantage for the people.

00:33:13.780 The Federal Conservative Party of Canada

00:33:15.120 is going to be having their event

00:33:16.620 at the same Stampede venue at the end of the week.

00:33:19.280 Don't get me started on that.

00:33:20.880 Well, is there not a hope that they can turn this ship around?

00:33:23.480 No, no, no, no.

00:33:24.060 We're beyond that.

00:33:24.800 I mean, it's a 158-year-old experiment that has failed.

00:33:32.740 We have had numerous, numerous, numerous attempts.

00:33:36.380 If the Conservatives were to elect somebody like Pierre,

00:33:39.220 it might slow down, delay the inevitable,

00:33:41.760 but that's all it's going to do.

00:33:42.820 This is inevitable.

00:33:43.900 The country does not work the way it's designed.

00:33:46.160 I don't believe any government in Ottawa

00:33:48.100 has the courage to tackle the fundamental problems

00:33:52.060 with Confederation,

00:33:52.840 whether it's the Federal Conservative Party

00:33:55.380 or the Federal Liberal Party.

00:33:57.040 Both parties rely on the vast majority of their votes

00:34:00.040 from both Ontario and Quebec.

00:34:02.640 And so I'm not sure that either party,

00:34:04.940 and we've seen this historically,

00:34:06.540 neither party is willing to tackle equalization.

00:34:09.200 Neither party is willing to tackle

00:34:10.540 the disparity in representation.

00:34:13.320 So we are in a fight of, frankly,

00:34:16.000 taxation without representation

00:34:17.300 in the Senate and in Parliament.

00:34:19.280 I've become a little bit jaded.

00:34:21.200 I don't think any party would help us

00:34:23.760 at this point in time.

00:34:24.920 You can't change the way things are set up now.

00:34:27.960 It doesn't matter if it's Conservatives

00:34:29.200 or Liberals or in power.

00:34:30.900 Well, Stephen Harper can make anything happen.

00:34:33.440 Pierre won't.

00:34:35.240 He can't do it.

00:34:36.820 They have to kowtow to the people down east 0.99

00:34:39.260 to get the votes.

00:34:41.040 They know they got our votes already.

00:34:43.300 So, and I heard that Paul Laverre is changing his,

00:34:47.460 his, what's the word?

00:34:50.720 He's, wherever he's, he got elected here,

00:34:53.760 he's moving it down east now.

00:34:55.500 He wants to get away from us.

00:34:57.260 I am a Conservative,

00:34:58.880 so I would hope that they would get in,

00:35:02.120 but I'm not sure.

00:35:03.980 So I think that we have to go for independence, right?

00:35:08.580 To save Canada, really.

00:35:10.300 They've done so much, like,

00:35:11.700 and if you look at Daniel Smith,

00:35:13.540 honestly, she's done so much good for this province.

00:35:15.720 She's made it illegal for, of course,

00:35:17.940 children to have puberty blockers,

00:35:19.540 which I'm a big fan of.

00:35:20.880 And, of course, she's spoken against a lot of things

00:35:23.440 that a lot of other provinces have not

00:35:25.760 and that our federal government has refused to.

00:35:28.220 Instead, they just like to put on this facade

00:35:30.840 and think, oh, I'm doing the best I can, you know?

00:35:34.040 But no, you know, so I think the Conservatives

00:35:36.500 can definitely do a lot better than they are.

00:35:38.100 Is there even the opportunity of them coming into power still?

00:35:41.440 I mean, to what extent does democracy still exist in Canada?

00:35:45.660 That's also a question, right?

00:35:47.100 I feel like if it was to happen

00:35:49.460 that Conservatives did come into power,

00:35:51.280 I mean, maybe Alberta can receive more, 0.99

00:35:55.360 I guess, support from the federal government,

00:35:57.300 I mean, more hated upon in Ottawa.

00:35:58.580 The Conservative Party of Canada,

00:36:00.220 which is going to be having an event

00:36:01.300 at the end of this week in the building behind us.

00:36:03.260 Yeah, that's right.

00:36:03.860 So you're talking about a snap election

00:36:06.580 that might be coming this year,

00:36:07.760 presumably before a referendum.

00:36:10.140 Is this the last chance the Conservatives have

00:36:12.000 to snatch it from the Liberal Party of Canada?

00:36:15.180 You know what?

00:36:15.820 I think it's already been done.

00:36:17.080 I don't think it's the last chance.

00:36:18.380 I think it's done.

00:36:19.100 I think people, I mean,

00:36:20.220 if you take a look at what happened with Pierre Pauly

00:36:21.760 with the longest ballot committee, right?

00:36:24.220 You take a look at the games

00:36:26.180 that they played in this last election.

00:36:28.200 I think people are going to vote even more this time.

00:36:31.920 Yeah, I mean, the guy got 2 million votes, right?

00:36:34.640 And I've been talking to delegates,

00:36:36.600 folks like my good friend, Kevin Dick,

00:36:38.480 talking to good people

00:36:39.580 that are going to be at that convention

00:36:41.080 and they are fired behind Pierre Pauly.

00:36:44.500 They're ready to go.

00:36:45.500 And Pierre is my man.

00:36:46.740 I support that guy 110%.

00:36:48.340 I have his back and I'm always there for him.

00:36:50.920 So I support the UCP and also Premier Smith.

00:36:53.980 Absolutely not.

00:36:55.100 Maybe people don't know this,

00:36:56.060 but they're actually hosting their own rally right now

00:36:58.240 to try to shift people away from this event.

00:37:00.600 Right now, as we speak,

00:37:01.660 Daniel Smith, Jamil Javani,

00:37:03.100 and five Conservative MPs

00:37:04.860 are at the University of Calgary right now

00:37:06.320 trying to shift people away from this event

00:37:08.340 to their event.

00:37:09.560 It was actually supposed to happen on the 28th,

00:37:11.080 but they switched it

00:37:11.660 just because of this event happening today.

00:37:13.520 So the elite,

00:37:15.220 the people that are in from Ottawa

00:37:17.060 that are here to try to take away

00:37:18.700 our rights, our money, our land,

00:37:21.320 they're not here for us.

00:37:22.140 They don't represent me.

00:37:23.360 There's Conservative members

00:37:24.220 that would love to see part of our movement.

00:37:25.620 I mean, many of our members are.

00:37:27.120 I'm a Libertarian.

00:37:28.020 They say that they're Libertarians.

00:37:29.600 At the end of the day,

00:37:30.120 they will join us as they see as we are bigger.

00:37:32.720 We represent the people,

00:37:34.320 and this is ultimately what we want for Alberta.

00:37:36.760 And in one hand,

00:37:37.480 we have the Federal Liberal Party of Canada here,

00:37:41.040 and they've made a recent deal with China.

00:37:43.220 Carney's going down this new world order path.

00:37:45.140 Mine is the first visit

00:37:47.600 of a Canadian prime minister

00:37:49.280 to China in nearly a decade.

00:37:55.900 The world has changed much

00:37:57.620 since that last visit.

00:38:01.360 And I believe the progress

00:38:03.340 that we have made in the partnership

00:38:04.940 sets us up well

00:38:07.380 for the new world order.

00:38:11.980 But on the other hand,

00:38:12.660 we have President Donald Trump in the United States

00:38:15.000 seemingly inviting of the notion

00:38:17.460 of Alberta separating and leaving Canada

00:38:19.260 to become its own state.

00:38:20.500 Alberta is a wealth of natural resources,

00:38:22.780 but they won't let them build a pipeline

00:38:25.580 to the Pacific.

00:38:28.160 I think we should let them come down

00:38:30.900 into the U.S.

00:38:32.860 And Alberta is a natural partner for the U.S.

00:38:36.940 They have great resources.

00:38:38.740 The Albertans are very independent people.

00:38:43.240 Rumors that they may have a referendum

00:38:45.460 on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.

00:38:47.580 Sounds like you may know something up there.

00:38:50.320 What?

00:38:51.920 People are saying.

00:38:53.120 People are talking.

00:38:54.800 People are talking.

00:38:55.760 People want sovereignty.

00:38:58.360 They want what the U.S. has got.

00:39:00.480 Where does the United States fit into this equation?

00:39:02.400 Well, I mean, we've had,

00:39:03.380 we've been to Washington, D.C. three times now.

00:39:05.800 Every time we've been,

00:39:07.200 we've been told by U.S. officials

00:39:08.600 that we're meeting with

00:39:09.340 that the United States is enthusiastically

00:39:13.140 in support of Alberta independence.

00:39:15.640 And the reason is simple.

00:39:16.860 I mean, if you read the U.S. national security strategy

00:39:19.680 and you read, you know,

00:39:21.220 you understand where they're coming from,

00:39:22.600 they don't want the third largest oil field in the world

00:39:25.200 controlled by the communist Chinese.

00:39:27.020 We know that Carney's government

00:39:28.480 is infiltrated with Chinese agents.

00:39:30.920 We, you know, it almost looks like Carney's a Chinese agent.

00:39:33.680 You know, new world order.

00:39:35.960 I'm just surprised that he didn't flash

00:39:37.720 his little Illuminati symbol like he always does

00:39:40.520 while he was saying new world order in China, right?

00:39:43.840 So, you know, that's what we're voting to get away from.

00:39:46.340 We don't want to be China. 1.00

00:39:47.320 You know, we don't want to be controlled

00:39:48.500 by the Chinese communists.

00:39:50.100 We have friends, family, business partners

00:39:52.080 in the United States of America.

00:39:53.620 We're very comfortable with our relationship

00:39:55.980 with the United States.

00:39:57.060 We want to improve that relationship. 1.00

00:39:59.200 We don't want to be governed by a moron 1.00

00:40:00.980 that literally threatens war with the United States 1.00

00:40:03.460 when he comes back to visit Canada,

00:40:05.300 you know, after his, you know,

00:40:07.020 after returning to China to get orders

00:40:08.700 from his Chinese communist masters in Beijing,

00:40:11.660 you know, et cetera, et cetera.

00:40:13.100 So, you know, we're moving forward

00:40:14.740 and, you know, we're really, really happy

00:40:17.040 with how it's going.

00:40:17.740 I respect the United States, our Brick brothers.

00:40:20.860 Over 70% of our trademark goes between us

00:40:23.520 and the United States.

00:40:24.540 How far could we go without the United States?

00:40:26.400 I can guarantee you no far.

00:40:27.460 We have NORAD system, F-18, F-15, F-35

00:40:30.940 coming this year here to Cold Lake, Alberta

00:40:33.240 because of the United States.

00:40:34.920 Who's closer to us?

00:40:35.980 Your neighbor better than your brother.

00:40:37.840 And our neighbor is the United States.

00:40:39.060 I believe Carney is failing

00:40:40.260 and they have a bigger agenda.

00:40:41.940 They are following.

00:40:42.780 They're not putting the interest of Canadians, 0.69

00:40:44.460 especially Alberta, in the first place.

00:40:46.480 They did fail in the past

00:40:47.700 and they will fail again and again.

00:40:49.520 Something needs to be done.

00:40:50.880 And again, I'll tell you one thing.

00:40:52.500 I don't believe Americans are pushing us

00:40:55.480 to sign the referendum.

00:40:56.440 I don't, I didn't get any phone calls

00:40:58.780 from anyone to go inside.

00:41:01.240 I'm doing it because I see the bullying.

00:41:03.080 I see the system failure.

00:41:04.680 Like for 25 years,

00:41:05.880 every Canadian newborn kid

00:41:07.620 has $18,000 deficit in his name.

00:41:11.220 Just the second he was born.

00:41:12.780 Why?

00:41:13.000 Because the liberal government

00:41:14.020 sent him billion and billion of dollars

00:41:15.740 all over the universe.

00:41:17.160 The last one thing I need to talk,

00:41:18.560 $22 billion to Ukraine

00:41:20.800 while you and I are struggling.

00:41:21.820 We have veterans off the street 0.99

00:41:22.880 not having a place to live in.

00:41:24.480 Something needs to be done about this.

00:41:25.920 You know what?

00:41:26.620 I believe our best ally

00:41:28.100 as American, United States,

00:41:29.840 and we need to stay

00:41:30.520 in good relation with them. 1.00

00:41:32.000 Carney is stupid to make that statement 1.00

00:41:33.460 and to poke the bear 1.00

00:41:34.380 because I'll tell you one thing.

00:41:35.380 He won't live too far

00:41:36.240 and he won't live too long

00:41:37.160 because you cannot live

00:41:38.260 without United States.

00:41:39.340 This is a reality.

00:41:40.980 35 million people

00:41:42.300 cannot overcome 300 million people.

00:41:44.400 And this is something

00:41:44.960 we need to pay attention to.

00:41:46.180 I don't think the United States

00:41:47.420 has much influence on the movement.

00:41:48.680 But I think the actions

00:41:49.980 of the Ottawa government

00:41:51.480 under the Mark Carney government

00:41:54.200 and the WEF

00:41:54.980 have a lot of influence though

00:41:56.120 because when you look

00:41:57.280 at the alliances

00:41:57.980 that Ottawa is trying to make

00:41:59.400 cozying up to China, 0.85

00:42:01.180 I think if Albertans

00:42:02.120 have a choice

00:42:02.700 between our number one

00:42:03.880 trading partner

00:42:04.500 in the United States

00:42:05.320 and a relationship with China,

00:42:07.000 I can tell you

00:42:07.700 where the vast majority

00:42:08.380 of Albertans

00:42:08.820 are going to side with.

00:42:10.140 We share a lot more in common

00:42:11.460 with our friends

00:42:12.620 and relatives

00:42:13.120 in Montana and Idaho

00:42:14.300 than we do

00:42:15.340 in Ontario and Quebec.

00:42:16.420 It's one of Canada's

00:42:17.340 biggest partners.

00:42:18.160 So like about 75%

00:42:19.260 of Canada's trade

00:42:20.140 gets done with the US. 0.72

00:42:21.840 And then if you break that down,

00:42:23.520 a really big chunk of that

00:42:25.220 is Alberta-based.

00:42:26.620 I mean, you know,

00:42:27.240 the oil that we send,

00:42:28.480 the minerals,

00:42:29.960 lumber, stuff like that.

00:42:31.040 So we currently have

00:42:32.580 a huge trade with the US

00:42:34.100 and, you know,

00:42:36.000 that's all it is.

00:42:37.160 I mean, people that say

00:42:37.880 the Americans are interfering, 0.56

00:42:39.360 no, they're not interfering.

00:42:40.460 They know that we're

00:42:43.260 a reliable partner

00:42:44.620 and they're watching closely.

00:42:46.140 The Liberal government

00:42:46.860 is doing a failed job

00:42:48.100 at actually partnering up

00:42:49.780 with China

00:42:50.220 and I think that is why

00:42:51.420 we're going so much further

00:42:52.940 down this hole.

00:42:55.480 Forgive my language.

00:42:56.400 Now, look,

00:42:57.160 we just got 100% tariffs,

00:42:58.640 like, you know,

00:42:59.200 and that's a clear sign

00:43:00.560 that it's time for us

00:43:01.760 to separate

00:43:02.220 because we don't want

00:43:03.340 to be going down

00:43:04.520 that rabbit hole.

00:43:05.460 Ultimately,

00:43:05.780 if we were to

00:43:06.860 gain independence,

00:43:08.180 we would have an opportunity

00:43:09.780 to, you know,

00:43:11.020 potentially enter the states

00:43:12.040 and what that does

00:43:12.820 is really makes us

00:43:14.220 one and a half times

00:43:14.920 richer overnight

00:43:15.540 and he wants to get

00:43:17.260 into our oil

00:43:17.880 and use our resources

00:43:18.980 and continue to,

00:43:21.160 you know,

00:43:21.460 create prosperity

00:43:22.540 for Albertans.

00:43:23.760 That's the ultimate goal

00:43:24.860 and I'm not sure

00:43:25.580 why anyone

00:43:26.400 would be against that.

00:43:27.560 What's happening

00:43:28.200 isn't good with the tariffs,

00:43:29.880 but at the same time,

00:43:31.220 I don't think that

00:43:32.180 us being within Canada

00:43:34.500 or Alberta

00:43:35.160 want to be controlled

00:43:36.600 by China

00:43:37.220 or Russia

00:43:38.320 or anywhere like that.

00:43:39.440 the US has been

00:43:41.160 our allies

00:43:41.660 for many years

00:43:42.560 and so,

00:43:43.740 like,

00:43:44.640 they're the ones

00:43:45.200 that are going to protect us

00:43:46.280 if anything happens.

00:43:47.480 So,

00:43:47.880 I don't know.

00:43:48.320 I think that they play

00:43:49.360 an important part

00:43:50.400 but at the same time,

00:43:52.180 like,

00:43:52.820 with what's happening

00:43:53.620 with the Liberals,

00:43:54.720 it's just horrific.

00:43:56.160 As Pierre was pointing out,

00:43:57.900 it's crazy to see

00:43:59.240 how Carney's kind of

00:44:01.220 giving Donald Trump

00:44:02.940 these pressure points.

00:44:04.180 I mean,

00:44:04.480 he's genuinely causing

00:44:06.260 these issues as well

00:44:07.380 and I think

00:44:08.380 when we're right beside

00:44:09.560 an economic giant

00:44:10.460 such as the US

00:44:11.260 that is causing

00:44:12.220 a lot of turmoil

00:44:12.980 and,

00:44:13.700 you know,

00:44:13.940 it's not in the best interest

00:44:16.440 to continue on

00:44:17.420 kind of biting at them

00:44:19.000 and then,

00:44:19.940 you know,

00:44:20.220 especially when Carney

00:44:21.260 has most of his funds

00:44:22.320 in US companies

00:44:25.580 and his portfolio

00:44:27.200 consists of mostly

00:44:28.180 US stocks, right?

00:44:29.220 The US told Mark Carney,

00:44:30.900 Justin Trudeau,

00:44:31.560 then Mark Carney,

00:44:32.780 get your borders in check

00:44:33.820 because people are coming

00:44:35.000 here to Canada,

00:44:35.760 not finding

00:44:36.300 a career opportunity

00:44:37.320 so they're leaving,

00:44:38.540 they're going,

00:44:39.080 they're getting caught

00:44:39.600 on deer cams

00:44:40.460 in the other side

00:44:41.520 of the border.

00:44:43.060 Get your borders in check,

00:44:44.440 stop the fentanyl,

00:44:45.940 right?

00:44:46.780 We're not building

00:44:47.620 a small amount of fentanyl.

00:44:49.000 We have major super labs

00:44:50.600 throughout every single part

00:44:52.260 of our country.

00:44:53.580 Those need to be stopped,

00:44:54.780 right?

00:44:55.520 The US has had enough.

00:44:57.060 They've lost 300,000 people.

00:44:58.940 They are pointing fingers

00:44:59.840 obviously at Mexico

00:45:00.780 and at Canada.

00:45:01.960 He hasn't done it.

00:45:02.820 He hasn't stepped up

00:45:03.560 and done it.

00:45:04.180 I don't think he has the budget

00:45:05.260 and Premier Smith

00:45:06.180 has stepped up.

00:45:07.140 She got strong

00:45:07.820 on the borders.

00:45:08.620 Same with Saskatchewan.

00:45:09.980 Saskatchewan even stepped up

00:45:11.140 and got strong

00:45:11.640 on the borders.

00:45:12.580 But for Mr. Carney,

00:45:14.680 I don't think he understands it.

00:45:17.760 And at the end of the day,

00:45:19.120 that's more money

00:45:19.820 than our farming,

00:45:21.500 our mill industry.

00:45:22.600 Those folks

00:45:23.080 don't pay carbon tax.

00:45:24.240 They don't pay any CPP.

00:45:25.840 It's pure liquid cash

00:45:26.960 going into our housing industry,

00:45:28.380 which is a fact,

00:45:29.300 by the way.

00:45:30.200 But that's just it, right?

00:45:31.760 We're going to do the right thing

00:45:33.100 and let our voices be heard

00:45:34.560 and use the power of the pen.

00:45:35.880 Alberta has gotten

00:45:37.040 a lot of support

00:45:37.600 from the United States.

00:45:38.500 I've seen a lot

00:45:39.000 of American influencers

00:45:40.020 talk on both Twitter.

00:45:41.880 I'm on Instagram.

00:45:43.240 I've seen a lot of them

00:45:43.840 post on Instagram

00:45:44.560 boosting some of our people

00:45:46.620 to make sure

00:45:47.040 that we're actually well-known,

00:45:48.600 that we're not just,

00:45:49.400 you know, smaller groups,

00:45:51.600 that we can reach

00:45:52.440 a larger audience.

00:45:53.440 That's what I've seen

00:45:54.080 a majority of,

00:45:54.820 boosting content,

00:45:55.780 boosting PR,

00:45:56.600 boosting availability,

00:45:58.140 our reach.

00:45:59.020 That's what I've seen

00:45:59.660 and I want to keep more,

00:46:00.820 keep seeing more of them do that.

00:46:02.300 Let me push back

00:46:03.080 on that for a second.

00:46:04.260 A lot of the left-leaning people

00:46:06.140 in Canada would say,

00:46:07.240 oh, this is more

00:46:08.000 of a fringe movement.

00:46:09.120 There aren't that many of you.

00:46:10.920 What do you say to that?

00:46:12.360 Is it truly a small voice?

00:46:13.980 As you said,

00:46:14.460 getting a larger audience

00:46:15.420 doesn't necessarily mean

00:46:16.880 a larger support base

00:46:18.060 that's actually going to vote

00:46:18.960 for independence.

00:46:19.860 Well, I'll say two things.

00:46:20.780 Number one,

00:46:21.580 take a look around,

00:46:22.820 look at all the people

00:46:23.360 that showed up today.

00:46:24.180 I was at the Queensland event

00:46:25.280 as well too.

00:46:26.160 Almost 2,000 people

00:46:27.000 just showed up to an event

00:46:28.040 that no one marketed for.

00:46:29.600 People want independence

00:46:30.740 and I represent UFC

00:46:32.160 for the independence movement.

00:46:33.860 I'm trying to get

00:46:34.400 as many people as we can

00:46:35.420 to come out to this event

00:46:36.380 and to support independence

00:46:37.360 and right now

00:46:38.160 we have over 1,200 members

00:46:40.380 just on the UFC campus alone

00:46:41.840 that support independence.

00:46:43.060 I don't consider that

00:46:43.880 a small number.

00:46:44.760 For a youth group,

00:46:45.640 that's massive

00:46:46.260 and we're only going

00:46:47.060 to get bigger

00:46:47.580 as the movement

00:46:48.340 keeps getting bigger

00:46:49.100 and the campaign

00:46:49.980 keeps going farther.

00:46:50.920 We've had over 6,000 RSVPs

00:46:52.880 for this event tonight

00:46:53.840 so that's why

00:46:55.560 we moved into

00:46:56.160 the big four building

00:46:57.040 from the BMO Centre

00:46:59.040 because we'd already

00:47:00.400 outgrown the hall

00:47:01.280 that we were supposed

00:47:01.820 to be in

00:47:02.200 at the BMO Centre.

00:47:03.200 It's now 20 minutes

00:47:04.180 after 6

00:47:04.860 and the hall's

00:47:06.800 already half full

00:47:07.600 so we're confident

00:47:09.120 that we're going

00:47:11.080 to be full tonight.

00:47:11.900 We're going to have

00:47:12.200 6,000 enthusiastic

00:47:14.080 Albertans,

00:47:14.860 enthusiastic Calgarians

00:47:16.280 out in support

00:47:17.460 of Alberta independence

00:47:18.500 and we're thrilled

00:47:20.280 about it.

00:47:21.700 And last ado?

00:47:22.860 Oh, well,

00:47:23.380 thank you guys

00:47:23.900 for coming out.

00:47:24.440 We always appreciate

00:47:25.140 support from Rebel News

00:47:26.300 and it's always great

00:47:27.080 to see you guys here

00:47:27.740 so thank you guys

00:47:28.860 for coming out

00:47:29.360 and thanks for following us.

00:47:30.720 It seems to be the case

00:47:31.760 that despite the

00:47:32.800 federal Liberal Party

00:47:33.900 of Canada

00:47:34.440 advocating for a

00:47:35.600 unified country,

00:47:37.000 the proof is in the pudding.

00:47:38.500 Now that Prime Minister

00:47:39.220 Mark Carney

00:47:39.800 has been leading the reins

00:47:40.760 for the last few months

00:47:41.940 again under this Liberal banner,

00:47:43.740 we still see

00:47:44.680 it hasn't gone down

00:47:46.300 the sentiment in Alberta

00:47:47.520 for independence

00:47:48.260 has only gone up.

00:47:50.060 Time will tell.

00:47:50.700 We'll see what happens.

00:47:51.780 Let me know in the comments

00:47:52.520 do you think Alberta

00:47:53.620 is finally going to separate

00:47:54.940 from Canada's Confederation?

00:47:56.940 Let me know in the comments.

00:47:57.660 For Rebel News,

00:47:58.220 I'm Sidney Fazzard.

Rebel News Podcast - January 28, 2026

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