Rebel News Podcast - April 07, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ We’re going all in on Alberta’s independence referendum


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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today, we make the case for Alberta independence. I'd love to hear your
00:00:04.400 thoughts on it. Listen to me make the case in about 10 or 15 minutes and tell me what you think.
00:00:09.860 That's all on the show today. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News
00:00:13.620 Plus. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. It's eight bucks a month. Not only do you get great content, but
00:00:18.840 you get the satisfaction of helping Rebel News stay strong and independent. Tonight,
00:00:24.740 The Case for Alberta Independence.
00:00:27.500 It's April 7th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:30.300 You party for freedom!
00:00:33.160 Shame on you, you censorious bug!
00:00:45.180 Rebeloos is setting up what's called a third-party campaign group in Alberta
00:00:49.000 in support of the independence referendum.
00:00:51.400 You can find out more and help us out at actforalberta.com.
00:00:56.280 The phrase third party doesn't mean we're setting up a political party.
00:00:59.500 It's just the term for what they would call a super PAC in the United States.
00:01:03.660 It's a way for us to legally participate in the referendum campaign.
00:01:07.740 Otherwise, we'd be prosecuted by Elections Alberta.
00:01:10.460 Now, we've done this before.
00:01:11.680 For example, right now, we have a third party super PAC for the federal by-elections going on in Ontario.
00:01:18.260 And during the last federal election, we had a Super PAC too.
00:01:22.020 Now we're doing one for the Alberta referendum campaign.
00:01:24.960 We're doing this for a few reasons.
00:01:26.940 The first reason, as I mentioned, is that if we don't register, we'd be prosecuted.
00:01:31.620 A few years ago, when the NDP were the government in Alberta, Rebel News put up a beautiful
00:01:37.160 billboard calling for the firing of the absolutely awful cabinet minister named Dave Egan.
00:01:43.440 But Elections Alberta claimed that was illegal for us to do, and they prosecuted us.
00:01:48.960 How? Why? How is that any different from writing a newspaper editorial calling for a politician to be fired?
00:01:55.200 As you know, that happened to us federally, too.
00:01:58.060 When I published my book about Justin Trudeau called The Libranos, I was prosecuted for that, too.
00:02:03.840 So the first reason is that if we don't register, we'll be prosecuted for things like billboards and public meetings and book launches.
00:02:11.180 elections bureaucrats hate rebel news because they're usually left-wing control freaks and 0.90
00:02:16.800 they realize we campaign with a bit of flair and irreverence that even political parties don't
00:02:21.680 usually do. So they would love to prosecute us. That's what happens in a country without the
00:02:26.940 First Amendment guaranteeing our freedom of speech. But the second reason is we absolutely
00:02:32.440 believe in this referendum. For those who haven't been following along, Alberta allows what's called
00:02:38.100 a citizen's initiative. That is, if enough people sign a petition, a law can be introduced in the
00:02:43.760 legislature, or in this case, a constitutional referendum can be called. Now, last week, a
00:02:48.920 petition with more than 177,000 names was submitted to the government calling for a referendum on
00:02:56.520 Alberta independence. And the date is set, October 19th, barely six months from now. Now, I love the
00:03:02.760 idea of a referendum. Let the people speak. There are some issues that politicians refuse to talk
00:03:07.840 about because they're too scared or politically correct. Ending mass immigration is an obvious 1.00
00:03:12.720 one. A referendum on independence is exactly the kind of thing that ordinary people talk about,
00:03:18.160 but official people are terrified to mention. Now, all the usual suspects in the regime are
00:03:24.120 against an Alberta referendum. I mean, it's sort of weird, though, isn't it? Quebec has had two
00:03:29.920 referendums on independence, and the last one came within half a percent of passing. The Supreme
00:03:35.440 Court of Canada has said referendums on independence are perfectly legal. And in a 1998 court case,
00:03:41.540 they actually laid out the procedure to do it. Parliament agrees. They passed the Clarity Act,
00:03:47.700 which says a clear majority on a clear question is the first step to independence. This has been
00:03:53.300 the law for decades. It is normal for Quebec. The separatist Bloc Québécois party is treated as
00:03:59.500 legitimate and respected in Parliament, even it once formed the official opposition. The provincial
00:04:06.160 Parti Québécois is leading the polls in Quebec right now provincially and has won four by-elections
00:04:11.960 in a row. Now, that is all considered normal and healthy, but when Albertans want the same remedies,
00:04:17.580 they're denounced as treasonous by the regime media. I'd like to just take and pause a moment.
00:04:22.800 I read an article last night in the Financial Times about a group of people from Alberta. I
00:04:28.180 won't describe them as Albertans, who went to the White House seeking the assistance of the United
00:04:32.960 States to break up our country. Now, I understand the desire to hold a referendum, to talk about the
00:04:40.720 issues we want to talk about in Canada. We got free speech, that's important. But to go to a
00:04:45.160 foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned 0.98
00:04:50.600 word for that. And that word is treason. How come Quebec is allowed to talk about its destiny,
00:04:56.260 but Alberta is not. Why is a democratic vote in Alberta denounced as unacceptable by the official
00:05:02.720 people, but Mark Carney announcing that we're joining Canada as a partner and just deciding
00:05:09.700 that we all have to be part of a Chinese new world order? How come that's great, even though 1.00
00:05:14.360 he never mentioned such a shocking and dangerous policy during the last election? But why is that
00:05:20.380 Democratic. The progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new
00:05:27.820 world order. But an independence referendum isn't. The Canada's Canada's stronger when we work
00:05:36.660 together as an Albertan. I firmly believe that you can always ask a question, but I know what
00:05:43.960 I would respond. Clearly, why are Alberta pipelines and Alberta oil sands blocked and
00:05:49.800 cancelled by Ottawa, costing hundreds of thousands of jobs. Why did Justin Trudeau and his economic
00:05:55.940 advisor at the time, Mark Carney, say there was no business case for LNG natural gas,
00:06:01.780 even though countries like Germany and Japan practically begged us for it?
00:06:06.380 Mr. Prime Minister, you didn't say yes or no to the question if you're ready to export to Germany.
00:06:11.060 You said you were checking if that's a business case, if it makes sense to export. Can you
00:06:15.220 Please elaborate a little bit what would be or what would define a business case to export gas to Germany?
00:06:20.940 Canada already exports a lot of a lot of natural gas and
00:06:28.460 oil into global markets
00:06:31.060 So we are certainly aware that even as the world needs to decarbonize and get off
00:06:37.540 fossil fuels
00:06:38.860 There is a need right now to counter the energy crisis created
00:06:43.440 by Russia, even as we accelerate moving forward. Why are real businesses with real projects
00:06:51.600 in Alberta that don't need any government subsidies, why are those projects being killed
00:06:56.360 off, but fake businesses and fake projects like a $90 billion fast train between Toronto and
00:07:04.100 Montreal considered nation building? Why does Alberta have to send $20 billion a year to the
00:07:10.180 rest of Canada every year, only to have provinces like BC or Quebec veto pipelines going to the
00:07:16.560 coast, even though that's not their constitutional power to do that. Eastern Canada actually imports
00:07:22.980 oil from OPEC dictatorships coming in on tanker ships. Why does conflict oil get to come into
00:07:29.880 Canada, but ethical oil from Alberta is not allowed to flow out? Why does Alberta oil have
00:07:36.640 to pay an industrial carbon tax and now do some fake carbon capture process that conflict oil
00:07:43.200 imports don't have to do? Why are oil tankers exporting Alberta oil banned, but oil tankers
00:07:50.280 importing OPEC oil allowed? Why are Albertans treated like second-class citizens? We just saw
00:07:58.100 a few weeks ago the CEO of Air Canada, he was fired because he didn't speak perfect French
00:08:04.200 in some video announcement, by the way,
00:08:06.380 that had translation right on the screen.
00:08:08.600 We live, as I just said, in a bilingual country.
00:08:12.620 We proudly live in a bilingual country.
00:08:15.400 And companies like Air Canada particularly
00:08:18.100 have a responsibility to always communicate
00:08:20.600 in both official languages, regardless of the situation.
00:08:25.720 I'm very disappointed, as others are, rightly so,
00:08:29.320 in this unilingual message of the CEO of Air Canada.
00:08:36.980 It doesn't matter the circumstance, but particularly in these circumstances,
00:08:40.960 lack of judgment and lack of compassion.
00:08:44.500 Lack of compassion.
00:08:45.820 Same thing applies to most federal jobs.
00:08:48.000 You cannot rise above a junior level in the federal civil service,
00:08:52.320 in the RCMP, in the military, if you're not bilingual,
00:08:55.720 which rules out 98% of Albertans.
00:08:58.160 You need to be bilingual to be on the Supreme Court. And by the way, Quebec is guaranteed 0.97
00:09:01.700 three out of nine seats there anyways, far more than their population.
00:09:05.400 I don't think Albertans are greedy or angry. I don't think they're stingy. I think it's a
00:09:11.260 combination of not being allowed just to work for a living in oil and gas, and at the same time,
00:09:17.980 being demonized and being mocked when Albertans try in good faith to fix things. Like the entire
00:09:24.440 15-year, 20-year reform party experiment,
00:09:29.380 Preston Manning said to the separatists of his day in Alberta,
00:09:32.960 he said, no, let's try and fix Canada.
00:09:35.700 The West wants in.
00:09:37.720 The liberals and the media and the whole establishment
00:09:40.200 just laughed at him and called him racist,
00:09:43.140 which is exactly what they think of all Albertans.
00:09:46.640 This isn't a one-off.
00:09:48.100 It's always been this way.
00:09:50.100 Alberta was born unequal as a province back in 1905.
00:09:53.220 it literally didn't join Canada with the same property rights to national resources that the
00:09:59.960 other provinces had. Alberta's attempts to weather the depression were rebuked by Ottawa, who let the
00:10:06.300 province go bankrupt. In the 1980s, Pierre Trudeau nationalized much of the Alberta oil industry and
00:10:12.380 taxed the rest into submission. Justin Trudeau did the same again, over and over. It's like
00:10:18.940 Groundhog Day, nothing changes because the system itself is broken. I mean, once in a generation,
00:10:25.180 a conservative becomes prime minister. So the viciousness recedes for a few years,
00:10:30.060 like it did under Stephen Harper, but nothing was actually reformed. The system wasn't fixed.
00:10:35.440 How could it be? You don't see federal politicians demonizing any other industry in any other
00:10:41.780 province. You don't see laws being specifically drafted to harm and phase out any other industry.
00:10:48.180 It's not just the money.
00:10:50.100 That's the least of it, actually.
00:10:52.140 It's the sneering condescension, the disrespect.
00:10:55.380 Because everyone in Ottawa knows, what's Alberta going to do about it anyways? 1.00
00:10:58.620 You don't have the votes in Parliament.
00:11:01.300 Well, how about doing it in Quebec and voting for independence?
00:11:05.400 The United States recently said they would continue to buy Alberta oil
00:11:09.400 if Alberta was independent.
00:11:10.800 Of course they would.
00:11:11.560 Look, Alberta is a wealth of natural resources,
00:11:14.640 but they won't let them build a pipeline to the Pacific.
00:11:20.020 I think we should let them come down into the U.S., 1.00
00:11:24.680 and Alberta is a natural partner for the U.S.
00:11:28.760 They have great resources.
00:11:30.840 The Albertans are very independent people.
00:11:34.920 Rumors that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.
00:11:39.420 Sounds like you may know something up there.
00:11:40.980 what people are saying people people people are talking people are talking people want
00:11:48.240 sovereignty they they want what the u.s has got isn't that amazing a foreign country is more open
00:11:55.420 to alberta pipelines than some fellow provinces i mean what would alberta lose if it were
00:12:01.440 independent schools and hospitals are already provincially run most services are from the
00:12:07.520 cities, what do the feds actually do for Alberta? A rusting, shrinking military that's being
00:12:13.080 neglected. A pro-China, pro-Palestine foreign policy. An out-of-control immigration system. 0.80
00:12:20.620 An RCMP more interested in seizing law-abiding gun owners' firearms and actually cracking down
00:12:27.220 on crime. The $20 billion a year that Alberta would save would be more than enough to cover
00:12:33.440 the few things Ottawa actually provides for Alberta. And it would end the chaos and the
00:12:38.700 teasing and the faking, like Mark Carney's MOU, where he kind of sort of said he might let Alberta
00:12:45.580 build a pipeline sometime in the future if certain conditions were met. That's chaos. Mark Carney
00:12:51.640 has brought chaos to Alberta, just like Justin Trudeau before him. No wonder no pipeline companies
00:12:57.060 have taken Carney up on his MOU. They would rather invest in Venezuela than in Alberta.
00:13:04.140 Venezuela is less chaotic. It's less risky. Hey, here's a thought experiment. If Alberta were its
00:13:10.000 own country right now, do you think it would vote to join Canada? Do you think it would vote to
00:13:15.080 be dominated by a distant and partisan Laurentian elite who would take $20 billion a year to fund
00:13:21.280 their own corrupt schemes, block Alberta's ambitions at every turn, inject bizarre and
00:13:27.040 woke ideas into Alberta life through Keanu court rulings? I don't think so. Do you know what I think
00:13:33.500 about all the time, actually? I think about how Sir John A. Macdonald was removed from our $10
00:13:40.040 bill, how statues of Macdonald and Queen Victoria have been toppled, how it's the official policy
00:13:47.620 of the Canadian government that we are a genocidal country.
00:13:51.200 Do you know that?
00:13:52.380 How Canada's history and culture are being erased and rewritten.
00:13:56.360 Every military veteran, every cop, everyone I know who has served in that way in Alberta
00:14:01.640 that I know, the most patriotic people, they're for independence.
00:14:06.300 The most patriotic people are for Alberta independence.
00:14:09.140 It sounds like a paradox, but it's not because the choice in 2026 is not between an independent
00:14:16.220 Alberta and the Canada of Vimy Ridge or the Canada of Terry Fox, even. It's between an
00:14:22.980 independent Alberta and the Canada of Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau and the New World Order and
00:14:28.500 out-of-control courts and a woke ideology and a new repulsive national identity that they're
00:14:34.400 forcing on us without ever asking. Well, the referendum's going to ask. That's the case for
00:14:41.040 Alberta independence in a nutshell. It's our editorial position at Rebel News, and because
00:14:46.520 we'd be prosecuted for saying that if we didn't register as a third-party campaign group, we're
00:14:52.020 registering. To join us, go to actforalberta.com to learn more and to help us out. We're going to
00:14:59.040 make the case for independence. Other voices are too. There are many people of goodwill in Alberta
00:15:03.980 making the case earnestly, but we're going to do it a bit different. We're going to use
00:15:07.520 professional communications methods, including real TV ads, digital ads, our big, beautiful
00:15:13.720 billboard truck, and other professional campaign tools, just like we did when we had a federal
00:15:20.160 super PAC in the last national election. Because every awful group in Canada is about to join
00:15:26.360 the no side in the Alberta referendum. Every public sector union that's worried about losing
00:15:31.860 those federal positions in Alberta,
00:15:34.800 every greedy left-wing group
00:15:36.220 that lives off of Alberta's bounty, 1.00
00:15:38.680 every establishment that sees Alberta
00:15:40.520 as a cow to be milked,
00:15:42.180 they don't want to lose their free stuff.
00:15:44.900 You could already see the worst people
00:15:47.300 in the country ganging up against Alberta.
00:15:49.520 And remember, the Conservative Party of Canada
00:15:51.840 has already said they opposed the referendum too.
00:15:55.800 Well, there's talk about Alberta separating.
00:15:57.620 That won't happen.
00:15:58.460 What was that about?
00:15:59.560 It won't happen.
00:16:00.120 And people, some people are frustrated, but they, you know, there's some legitimate frustrations.
00:16:06.500 But at the end of the day, Canada's going to be united.
00:16:09.860 And Albertans, I'm born and raised Alberta, and Albertans are seriously patriotic.
00:16:15.200 Very patriotic.
00:16:16.100 Yeah, they're great people, hardworking.
00:16:18.400 Any of your MPs who are in favour of Alberta separatism, would they be allowed to remain in your caucus?
00:16:22.520 We are entirely a federalist caucus.
00:16:24.720 I have not had a single MP express that view.
00:16:27.940 And as for myself, I'm a very proud federalist, born and bred Albertan, and we will be fighting
00:16:33.880 for a united Canada.
00:16:35.520 If you support the idea of Rebel News registering as a third-party campaign group and believe
00:16:40.520 that we should be allowed to make the case for Alberta and to fight back against the
00:16:44.400 Alberta haters, the anti-Alberta regime, from Mark Carney to Nahid Nanshi to the Globe and
00:16:50.540 Mail, the CBC, if you think Albertans need to hear the other side of the story and the
00:16:55.800 rest of the country to hear Alberta's case. Please go to actforalberta.com to learn more
00:17:02.200 and to help us. Thanks.
00:17:13.440 Hey, welcome back. Our friend David Menzies has been busy making amazing videos. Here,
00:17:18.240 let me show you one of the latest. Canadiana is cool again, and that would include the return
00:17:22.660 of Maple Leaf Wrestling, tough guy.
00:17:52.660 Evil Uno is here!
00:17:59.700 And Evil Uno is unloading a hint.
00:18:04.360 Tell us about the resurrection of this iconic wrestling brand.
00:18:10.300 Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, David.
00:18:11.660 I mean, just like you, I grew up watching Maple Leaf Wrestling
00:18:14.640 like so many people around this country did.
00:18:16.860 And really, when you look at it, 1989 was the last time there was a national broadcast of Canadian wrestling.
00:18:24.960 That was Stampede Wrestling on TSN.
00:18:27.220 So when I had my departure from TNA Wrestling and I got back here,
00:18:31.980 I thought, you know, I've always wanted to have a platform to really showcase Canadians
00:18:36.960 because there's so many amazing Canadian talents in this business, and they don't get the opportunities.
00:18:42.160 Because if you're not American in wrestling, really any entertainment business, it's harder to get those opportunities because without a work visa, you know, most of the work is in the U.S.
00:18:52.020 So it's one of those things, you know, getting that threshold to be able to get the visa to have the you have to have that notoriety.
00:18:57.900 You need to have like worldwide acclaim or international acclaim.
00:19:01.180 And how do you do that when you don't have a platform for that?
00:19:03.940 So our mission has been to provide a platform to showcase the very best Canadian wrestling talent out there, which is unbelievably fantastic.
00:19:12.200 There's so much great talent.
00:19:13.680 And how do we showcase how the talent is world-class?
00:19:17.800 It's by putting them on a stage
00:19:19.180 alongside the very best in the world
00:19:20.780 from all over the world.
00:19:22.040 So that's what Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling is.
00:19:24.240 It's a place to showcase Canadians
00:19:26.400 along with the best from around the world
00:19:29.100 on a platform large enough that people are gonna see it
00:19:31.740 and that our talent here will be able to show
00:19:33.680 that they're world-class.
00:19:34.800 We announced that we'll be starting on TSN in July.
00:19:37.620 So it's outstanding.
00:19:40.020 It's super exciting.
00:19:41.220 It's humbling to be a part of.
00:19:43.300 Growing up as somebody who not only watched Maple Leaf Wrestling,
00:19:46.160 but also watched a lot of Stampede Wrestling on TSN,
00:19:48.900 that was another thing for me.
00:19:50.020 To be on the leader in the industry, you know, TSN,
00:19:53.820 it just, it means so much.
00:19:55.320 And I think that the value of what it's going to bring
00:19:58.020 and the opportunity it's going to bring to Canadian wrestlers
00:20:01.320 and the wrestling industry is huge and very grateful to have this opportunity.
00:20:05.840 And, you know, Scott, correct me if I'm wrong,
00:20:07.940 But I see the rise of independent wrestling circuits.
00:20:12.240 It's almost a back to the future story.
00:20:14.220 And by that, I mean, when Vince McMahon took over the WWF from his late father, he began to do something that was unthinkable in the 80s, encroach into territories by independent circuits.
00:20:28.200 He created this global juggernaut.
00:20:30.600 And I would argue right now, the WWE, as it's known as, it is not accessible to the common fan anymore.
00:20:39.420 The idea of WWE house shows in cities and small towns, that's gone by the wayside.
00:20:45.920 And if you can get tickets, it's extremely expensive.
00:20:49.740 Is this your niche?
00:20:51.600 It is to fill this vacuum that I guess the WWE and its global success has created.
00:20:58.120 Well, I think it's part of what our goal is.
00:21:00.220 I think there's lots of great organizations out there in Canada and around the world that are providing affordable energy.
00:21:05.920 So, look, AEW is right out there.
00:21:07.780 I'm arguably providing the best wrestling in the world, and it's providing affordable tickets.
00:21:12.140 But we want to bring that to the Canadians.
00:21:14.020 Like, AEW will come to Canada once or twice a year and hit the big towns.
00:21:17.660 Right.
00:21:17.920 But we think with the exposure and as we grow and as we build, initially, it's being a national television wrestling product.
00:21:24.440 It's, you know, it'd be more regionalized in where we capture the content, but it'll be seen nationally.
00:21:28.600 But eventually the goal, you know, WWE used to tour Canada almost full time.
00:21:33.320 Absolutely.
00:21:33.900 And that's gone to the wayside.
00:21:35.220 And where is the St. John's and the Halifax's and the Cornwall's and the Brandon Manitoba's?
00:21:41.360 Where's the wrestling opportunity for them on a grander scale?
00:21:44.840 So I think there's a great grassroots movement with independent wrestling in Canada.
00:21:48.780 And I think the scene's as good as it's ever been.
00:21:50.820 And I think we fill that middle space between WWE, where you have to mortgage your house to get a ticket,
00:21:56.420 or AEW that comes, you know, every so often,
00:21:59.860 but to the major markets.
00:22:00.900 And then your grassroots, your local independent scene.
00:22:03.740 So I think we provide that opportunity there.
00:22:06.320 We also provide the exposure for the talent.
00:22:09.040 The wrestlers themselves, they're seen on TSN.
00:22:11.540 And when they're not with us,
00:22:12.460 they're gonna go and have more value
00:22:13.940 at those other Canadian events.
00:22:15.240 And we're hoping to help grow the independent scene
00:22:17.220 across the nation.
00:22:18.880 Fantastic.
00:22:19.500 And Scott, can you give us an idea
00:22:21.980 of some of the people that are behind Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling?
00:22:25.740 Yeah, I mean, look, I mean, obviously, you know, myself as the president, but we've got we've got Jimmy Jacobs, who is a writer at WWE and AEW and TNA.
00:22:36.740 We've got we've got so many amazing people. We have Jeffrey Kavanaugh, who's affectionately known in the business as Drum Boy.
00:22:42.620 We've got a crew. We had an infrastructure built here as Border City Wrestling here in this region.
00:22:47.580 And a lot of that has built the platform for us to be on because we like to find the mix between Canadians and Americans and international people.
00:22:55.740 And we kind of look at the CFL model in the sense that we want to keep it truly Canadian.
00:22:59.960 We want to roughly half the product and the people behind the scenes and on camera to be Canadian.
00:23:04.720 We want to mix in the best.
00:23:05.960 So we've done that.
00:23:06.600 And when you look at it, our production team is world class.
00:23:09.380 I think when I looked at it, there was like 29 Emmys on our production team.
00:23:13.540 I think if you invest your time into Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling, whether it's buying a ticket, whether it's buying a pay-per-view, buying a piece of merchandise, or simply taking your time, which time is a very, very valuable thing to us.
00:23:24.800 It's so limited.
00:23:25.460 And if you invest your time by watching the product,
00:23:28.080 we are going to give you a return on that investment
00:23:30.240 with the joy and excitement and entertainment value
00:23:33.580 that we give you.
00:23:34.180 That's a guarantee I've made for years.
00:23:35.980 If you come, if you watch it,
00:23:37.640 if you give us an opportunity and you don't like it,
00:23:40.420 reach out to us, I'll refund your money.
00:23:42.120 And not that you have to worry about selling tickets.
00:23:44.440 I understand the card yesterday sold right out,
00:23:46.900 standing room only.
00:23:47.840 Yeah, look, we're very blessed.
00:23:49.580 Last night's crowd was sold out.
00:23:51.060 Tonight's crowd, I think,
00:23:52.160 is even maybe a little more sold out, if that's possible.
00:23:54.640 Yeah. So when your biggest problem is working, you put everybody. That's a good problem to have.
00:23:59.880 And that's why I know that as we continue to grow and get the opportunity to expand in other regions in Canada,
00:24:05.020 we know we're going to find great support from Canadians because it's such an important time in our history.
00:24:11.040 You know, historically, Canadians are a little meek and shy about pounding our chest and saying how proud we are to be Canadian. 0.99
00:24:17.260 But in this interesting time we live in, it's really great to see the Canadians from coast to coast are standing up and saying,
00:24:22.720 we're Canadian. We're proud of it. We're among the very best in the world. And we're going to
00:24:26.840 stand here proudly like that. So I think it's the perfect time for a national Canadian wrestling
00:24:30.820 brand. And you know what, folks, before we started this interview, Scott and I were talking off
00:24:36.380 camera. And this is the second time I met Scott. The first time was 27 years ago in Toronto at
00:24:44.360 Medieval Times Theatre. It was an independent card. And Scott, what I'm getting at is that
00:24:52.360 You told me an anecdote where you kind of got in trouble
00:24:56.400 with the promo you were doing at that venue.
00:24:59.800 And I'm curious if you can tell us about the blowback you received.
00:25:05.780 And has the virus of political correctness and wokeness 0.99
00:25:09.480 even affected professional wrestling?
00:25:12.600 I mean, look, I'll say, like, back many years ago,
00:25:15.860 it was a little bit of a different scene.
00:25:17.600 I was wrestling in Medieval Times.
00:25:19.200 I was wrestling a very famous wrestler by the name of Tatanka.
00:25:21.320 who is of native heritage and he had given me some lines
00:25:26.160 to use in my speech, in my promo, to incite the crowd
00:25:31.660 and build up for him to come in and be the conquering hero.
00:25:34.460 I think that some of those things were maybe
00:25:37.300 that could be construed as being a little insensitive
00:25:40.040 to some of the concerns of the indigenous community.
00:25:43.480 Such as?
00:25:44.880 I'll leave those for people to look up,
00:25:46.920 but you know, it came out,
00:25:49.120 out there is concern from some some leaders at the time in the indigenous community i gave my
00:25:54.540 apologies thankfully to tonka class act uh he he he stepped forward and said no no no i told him to
00:26:00.340 say those so i mean if somebody was wrong it was me and i mean look we have a wonderful indigenous
00:26:05.760 community here that's part of the tapestry of our makeup of this country and i think you know as we
00:26:11.040 say wrestling's for everybody so we don't care where you come from what you do come here have
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