Join Sheila Gunn-Reed and Tami Ugolini as they discuss the Alberta Separatist movement and how it s gaining ground in the eyes of the Canadian public, and the government's response to the growing problem.
00:02:49.880So it's, I don't know, it's crazy times.
00:02:53.600It's funny to see the people saying, no, no, you can't go.
00:02:57.160And it sounds, by the way, it sounds like Doug Ford got a little bit of a talking to.
00:03:00.740Because like two days ago, he was like, I don't know what's wrong with Daniel Smith, so irresponsible, blah, blah, blah.
00:03:06.460And then yesterday, he's like, I'm good friends with Danielle.
00:03:09.340And, you know, something's got to change for Alberta.
00:03:13.160And it's like, I bet the federal party got to Doug and was like, Doug, shut your yap because don't make the Westerners mad or you're in a world of trouble, too.
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00:04:45.680We're covering Alberta separatism, CBC's skewing of the Kearney Oval Office meeting, and then we'll talk a little bit about Jasper Fire mismanagement.
00:04:56.480So off the hop, we will get to a video here from Block leader Blanchet, who basically says that Quebec can urge separatism because they have a culture of their own.
00:05:14.180Well, anyway, let's let him talk, and then we'll come back and comment.
00:05:19.100For the people in Alberta who want to separate, do you have any tips for them on how to actually get the job done?
00:05:22.900Our success so far, it does not place me in a position to give them tips about what to do, but I could give them tips about what not to do.
00:06:51.900And I am not one to say, like, yeah, the travel agency on behalf of the province of Alberta did a really good video describing who and what we are.
00:07:59.800I bet it is oil and gas is because somebody took an entrepreneurial risk.
00:08:05.380Somebody saw bitumen coming out of a riverbank and said, we could probably do something about that if we thought real hard and worked extra hard.
00:08:14.660And we could turn that into the thing that fuels the entire economy, not just of this province, but the entire country.
00:08:22.080And so for Blanchett to discredit that, I would look, I'm a lifelong Albertan.
00:08:30.400But I say that we do have a distinct culture here in the West that is largely incompatible with the voting habits of the rest of this country.
00:08:38.700Yeah, I was going to say that when I think of Alberta as an Eastern, more Eastern province dweller, unfortunately, I think of freedom and independence.
00:08:50.760Like those are kind of the two words that come to my mind when I think of what Albertans traditionally and typically stand for and what they're going for, especially now.
00:09:01.420And obviously, independence and separatism, the two are mostly hand in hand.
00:09:06.780But even the Albertan people that I've met are so independent, right?
00:09:11.200They don't want to be dependent on things like the state.
00:09:14.980They're hardworking and they want to maintain their sovereignty and their autonomy.
00:09:21.700And that is what I think when I think about Alberta and the people that make up Alberta, not just simply oil and gas.
00:09:29.400But, you know, obviously, there is a massive backing there.
00:09:33.100And that also facilitates and quite literally, pun intended, fuels the independence and that independent nature that Albertans seem to have.
00:09:42.080Yeah, I mean, it's why you couldn't keep us under lock and key during COVID.
00:09:46.460It's why the restaurant rebellion was led here.
00:09:48.600It's why the church rebellion was led here is because even when our politicians, even the ones that alleged themselves to be on the conservative side of the aisle said, you stay in your house and stay away from your neighbors.
00:09:57.940We're like, the hell, the hell we're doing that.
00:12:49.800And the state is taking it seriously in Alberta.
00:12:52.220Whereas, you know, in Ontario, it feels like you just have no representation anywhere you look.
00:12:58.040And so, yeah, the state put out a, you know, tourism video that is really compelling, visually beautiful, and an accurate representation of the people.
00:13:08.300Whereas here in Ontario, we have a government who's not listening to the people, who, you know, basically smears you if you don't go along with their groupthink, and then obviously doesn't represent your interests on that larger scale.
00:13:21.720So there's a very clear difference there in the representation of the state when the people are being properly heard.
00:13:27.040Yeah, it's funny how everybody seems so shocked that we have a government here in Alberta, for all of its flaws and warts, that listens to us in between election periods, instead of just like when they're trying to get our vote every four years.
00:13:43.620They're actually trying to put themselves closer to the people who elect them in the in-between parts and be more accountable to us.
00:13:52.260Like this citizen-led initiative can be for recall, like we want to recall the premier.
00:14:54.620So this chief Alan Adam is a real piece of work.
00:15:00.320So most recently, he was in the news for alleging police brutality against him while he was intoxicated in front of a casino in Fort McMurray.
00:15:12.440However, when the 11 minute body cam footage came out, he was trying to fight cops in front of the casino.
00:15:19.100Uh, and yeah, he said, the insinuation was it was racist cops.
00:15:26.600Um, but no, he was the one trying to fist fight, uh, I guess an entire shift of RCMP officers in Fort McMurray at the time.
00:15:35.220Um, so that was a couple of years ago, the cops just were, that was, I think, in 2020, the cops were just cleared after a four year long investigation in 2024.
00:15:44.720But Alan Adam is no friend to Alberta.
00:15:48.980And I won't take any advice about who or what amounts to a loyal Canadian citizen from chief Alan Adam.
00:15:56.380And I'll tell you why, because when he is not trotting up Hollywood anti-oil hypocrites to Fort McMurray, like Jane Fonda, who was run out of town on a rail by my friend, Robbie Picard, who confronted her down.
00:16:10.840I think it was at the Moxie's, but you got word that she was there and she came to say how bad everything was, um, in Fort McMurray.
00:16:18.740And Robbie, who is indigenous himself said, uh, no, what are you doing here, Jane?
00:16:36.060Yeah, this is, that's Alan Adam with Jane Fonda in Fort McMurray.
00:16:41.460He also brought up Leonardo DiCaprio and Neil Young previously.
00:16:45.900Neil Young once said about Fort McMurray that it looked like Hiroshima.
00:16:50.820And anyways, recently endorsed Mark Carney, by the way.
00:16:53.540So, uh, and as Ezra wrote many moons ago in the Toronto Sun, I think it was, Alan Adam took $50,000, $55,000 from the Tides Foundation to be a rent-a-chief, to give cover to these anti-oil activists saying, see, see, the indigenous people are on our side.
00:17:15.700All the oil and gas companies, by the way, in Fort McMurray have partnerships with the indigenous people.
00:17:20.620And what a great gift it is, the oil in Fort McMurray.
00:17:25.020It keeps our indigenous people in their community and out of generational poverty.
00:17:30.000But he took $55,000 from an American charitable clearinghouse that exists to oppose Canadian oil and gas.
00:17:41.820So the jobs of his people, by the way, he took $55,000 from them while siding with the people who would unemploy the young people in his community.
00:17:54.480He's fine with American money, but don't you ever consider that maybe Albertans want some of that, too, in the form of, you know, maybe being the 51st state.
00:18:04.040Like, he's got no problem with Americans when they're paying him, but you're a traitor if you muse about independence for yourself.
00:18:14.640And, you know, leave it to the Canadian media, the Edmonton legislature press gallery, to not tell you any of that, not tell you anything about what an absolute hypocrite Chief Alan Adam is,
00:18:29.120or any of his history, with the American anti-oil movement.
00:18:53.980Well, and, you know, it just, the Indigenous community in Alberta seems to just be poorly informed about what separation actually means for them.
00:19:25.980He used to be with Chorus, and then I don't know how they parted ways, but now he has a podcast, which is at least we don't have to listen to him on the terrestrial airwaves anymore.
00:19:39.840We can actually choose to listen to them when you're in combine jail, as they call it this time of year, tractor jail during seating.
00:19:46.460But he said Alberta just can't separate from Canada, according to Grand Chief Greg Desjardins, with a reminder.
00:19:55.000Greg Desjardins should talk to a constitutional lawyer anyway.
00:19:59.420Therefore, any citizen-initiated referendum must not violate the constitutional rights of First Nations peoples and must uphold and honour treaties 6, 7, and 8, should any referendum question ever pass.
00:21:23.600But as lawyer Keith Wilson points out, he says respectfully, and I don't know if that's required.
00:21:29.320He says, Ryan, respectfully, your post is misleading.
00:21:31.920Now, Keith is, I would say, one of the leading experts in this issue when it comes to Alberta, and he has studied extensively how these issues were addressed with Quebec.
00:21:56.640The process set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 1998 Quebec secession reference case directly addresses protecting First Nations rights, as does the resulting Clarity Act.
00:22:08.440Nothing that the premier has announced in any way reduces First Nations rights.
00:22:11.660In fact, it gives First Nations more options for their future.
00:22:15.220I was talking about this with Elise the other day.
00:22:20.360Do they really, like, you really want to side with the residential school people?
00:22:48.760No special treatment for members of First Nations re-voting in the referendum.
00:22:52.740That also means no special treatment for the rest of us either.
00:22:55.660Upon a successful vote for separation in the province of Alberta, First Nations within Alberta, the other provinces, and the government of Canada are obligated to engage in good-faith negotiations to establish the terms of Alberta's separation.
00:23:08.200Three, Alberta First Nations would have the following options, at minimum, and this is the base, to determine their post-separation status.
00:23:16.900Their reserve lands to remain owned by Canada with treaties still administered by the government of Canada.
00:24:29.980Alberta's already picking up a lot of those responsibilities anyway.
00:24:33.640So, again, what would be the difference?
00:24:36.700Except that you would be, you know, 50% wealthier because your dollar would potentially be at par with the American.
00:24:42.920Or negotiate a new framework agreement with Alberta to replace and modernize existing treaties.
00:24:47.720So, a chance to have new treaties, better treaties.
00:24:50.840What is the downside here to this opposition to the province and their own people having a say?
00:25:02.180And, as Keith says, importantly, the First Nations themselves would decide which option to pursue as part of the cessation negotiations.
00:25:11.740But they do not have a veto on whether Alberta separates.
00:25:15.720Five, as confirmed in the map below, the government of Alberta owns almost all of the land and the oil and gas within Alberta, resulting from the 1930 Natural Resources Transfer Agreement.
00:25:26.980So, the treaties are the seeding of the land and the reserves are theirs.
00:25:41.740And whatever happens at the end of it, the people who actually get an extra say are the bans who get to decide we'll stay, we'll go, we'll negotiate new treaties.
00:26:04.060And it seems like there's a lot of reasonable options available to the indigenous communities.
00:26:08.960And if it's going to be, well, complain, complain, complain, and we're not being treated fairly, and there's all this, you know, truth and reconciliation, and it's not actually happening, and it's all empty words and land acknowledgements.
00:26:18.500Well, here is a real opportunity to potentially get something different, to do something different, and why that negotiation or that conversation isn't at least being entertained, and instead is just shot down at every which way, really speaks volumes as to whose interests perhaps some of these band chiefs actually represent.
00:26:39.600We have, before we move on, a brand new pope, about an hour and a half ago, white smoke from the Vatican.
00:26:52.360And so we've got Cardinal Robert Prevost, or Prevost, depending on how you pronounce it.
00:27:01.200He is both American and Peruvian, so we have an American pope.
00:27:07.000A second Western Hemisphere pope, and if you go by the AP, one strike against him, however, is that he's American, and there's been a long taboo against a U.S. pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States in the secular sphere.
00:28:06.600So it's Rich coming from the block party to say Alberta don't have culture when they are too busy eating caviar and foie gras, I think, bought by Alberta.
00:28:35.840The equalization payments, when you actually break it down and look at who is getting what, I mean, it's very clear why Alberta is so disgruntled over it.
00:28:59.220And we don't want to be the boss except of ourselves.
00:29:02.960And it's real rich taking advice from the likes of a guy who threatened separation, or at least a province that's threatened separation twice, only to get more stuff.
00:29:16.500I don't think they were ever truly, truly serious about leaving.
00:29:19.340Let's hit an ad break while I try my best, my Catholic best, to digest the new Pope.
00:29:27.140I am, this stuff is informed by the Holy Spirit, so I'm going to keep my opinions to myself.
00:37:27.000But he also has to be, you know, polite and cordial.
00:37:30.340So not an easy balancing act, to say the least.
00:37:34.020So at the end of the day, this relationship, it's got to remain civil if Canada is going to be able to come out of this trade dispute with the U.S., you know, whole, intact.
00:37:42.340And I think there's this one exchange during yesterday's meeting in the Oval Office that really perfectly illustrates this kind of fine line the prime minister is walking.
00:37:51.540So after Carney said Canada is not for sale, the president, he continues insisting that,
00:39:24.140If you're if you're taking such a firm stance, if you've declared that the relation, our relationship with the United States as we know it is now done.
00:39:31.820And he said that repeatedly, like this wasn't just a one off.
00:39:35.080Then you would think when you're sitting beside the president and you have your opportunity to take a firm stance and, you know, elbows up.
00:39:42.720Well, Mark Carney's elbows were like way down here and he's cowered in trying to get a word in edgewise.
00:39:50.920And then for the mainstream media, the spin doctors to come in and just completely flip that on its head as though Carney was showing some sort of like, look at it.
00:40:00.460He's so uncomfortable, his body language, you can tell, and he's trying to get in there.
00:40:05.420I think it was more towards the middle, right when they start talking about, oh, Canada, it will never, there are some real, he says there's some real estate that will never be for sale.
00:40:14.000But for like three minutes before that, he's trying to get into the conversation and he just couldn't because he's not strong.
00:42:14.020And so, you know, Carney, I think, then realized at that point, well, I don't really have any leverage here anymore, other than just saying, some places are just never for sale and please buy our products again, I guess.
00:43:04.540Well, and simultaneously, the UK gets a trade deal with the Americans.
00:43:11.240So Carney goes there and does, gets nothing except made fun of, really, saying, yeah, to his face, we're going to make you the 51st state, plus your country isn't great.
00:43:22.100And Trump listed all the bad things that Canada is dealing with after 10 years of liberal government.
00:51:40.200So this broken by Black Locks, again, doing the good work that the press gallery refuses to.
00:51:47.200Access to information documents obtained by Black Locks revealed that Parks Canada left more than 577,000 acres of beetle-killed pine standing in Jasper National Park, fully aware that it posed a catastrophic wildfire risk.
00:52:06.680And they did absolutely nothing about it.
00:52:08.880In the entire year before the July 24, 2023, it should be 2024 wildfire, that destroyed 358 buildings and caused $1.2 billion in damages.
00:52:23.180And that's outside of the impact to the tourism industry.
00:52:28.300Parks Canada conducted zero prescribed burns in mountain pine beetle zones.
00:52:33.400In fact, over four years, they only removed 1,500 acres of deadwood, less than 3% of the known hazard.
00:52:42.940That's not even a large farm in northern Alberta worth of pine beetles.
00:52:50.000And we know Stephen Gilbeau said this was climate change.
00:52:54.500Harjit Sajjan said it was climate change.
00:52:56.400The entire left said it was climate change.
00:52:58.380And again, look inside yourself, Rosemary, because the phone call was coming from inside of the house.
00:53:22.320My phone is going off all day and all night about a fire just north of me.
00:53:26.120Um, and it's a seasonal thing, but the people who deal with seasonal fire seasons outside of the federal government here in Alberta are pretty darn well-equipped to deal with it.
00:53:39.680And a lot of that has to do with, as they call it, mechanical removal of fire load, logging.
00:53:45.900They weren't allowing logging to be done in Jasper National Park because it would be ugly and people wouldn't like it.
00:54:33.700And it was burned because the feds didn't do their jobs and they were warned.
00:54:39.040And, well, and they, it seems almost like, you know, they wanted to have an excuse for more climate hysteria pushings.
00:54:48.060And instead of having the insights to say, oh, you know what?
00:54:54.060I mean, why would the government admit that they dropped the ball?
00:54:56.820But, um, they, they just tried to frame it as though this was, well, this is the, the effects of climate change and global warming.
00:55:04.900And we probably need to tax Jasper even more than we already do, um, to prevent it all in the future.
00:55:10.820And instead of just upholding their duty to maintain this area, like it's just the hysteria that ignites through the federal government, um, and the scrambling to cover up their tracks when they're, you know, very clearly have done, have failed in their duty here.
00:55:31.580Um, but, but no one will be accountable.
00:56:35.440So if you had outside municipalities, like Edson, just a little bit further up the road or an hour or so rushing into hell, they were no good.
00:56:43.980They had parks, uh, people saying, well, you can't go to the river and suck up water because this is a national park to fight the fire.
00:56:52.400So the water trucks that couldn't hook to the fire hydrants couldn't go to the river to suck up water to be useful.
00:57:01.420And then the outside firefighters were told to stand down while the, uh, trailer park burned.