Rebel News Podcast - May 21, 2026


SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Cory Morgan： Why the political class is suddenly panicking about Alberta sovereignty

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Corey Morgan Thomas Lukasik Danielle Smith Jason Kenney Alberta Fact Check Elections Alberta Trudeau Grenail Grenai Tamara Leach Mark Carney John Brennan Alan Adam Stay Free What'sKelug Rebel Ezra
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Corey Morgan s got an updated book about how to have Sovereignist conversations. He joins the show today to discuss his old, new, updated book, The Sovereignist Handbook. He joins Sheila Gunn-Reed on The Gunn Show.

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00:00:00.000 Corey Morgan's got an updated book about how to have
00:00:03.260 Sovereignist conversations.
00:00:05.340 He joins the show today.
00:00:06.380 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:08.720 i think the issue of western independence is the hottest topic in alberta right now whether you are
00:00:33.320 in Alberta or outside Alberta, actually, for example, our friends in Saskatchewan, but all
00:00:38.920 across the country, everybody's buzzing about the potential for Alberta to secede from Confederation.
00:00:47.280 I think our separatist friends in Quebec might be jealous that we have the potential to do it
00:00:54.560 before them. That is, if the courts would get out of the way, but I don't think they will in time
00:01:01.580 for October 19th, but in between October 19th referendum day and now there will be lots of
00:01:09.700 face-to-face conversations happening between Albertans on either side of the independence
00:01:15.520 discussion. How do you have those conversations? What are the topics of those conversations and
00:01:21.960 how do you have them in a convincing way? Well, my friend Corey Morgan, the columnist that you
00:01:28.180 know and love over at the Western Standard and Epoch Times. And on our new little project,
00:01:33.720 Alberta Fact Check joins the show today because he has updated his bestselling book, The Sovereignist
00:01:39.320 Handbook, which he wrote three years ago for a more modern, not to say that three years ago is
00:01:50.900 the olden days, but a lot has changed between now and then. And he joins the show today to discuss
00:01:56.840 his old, new, updated book, The Sovereignty's Handbook. Take a listen.
00:02:08.880 So joining me now is my friend and now co-contributor to Alberta Fact Check,
00:02:16.040 Corey Morgan. Corey, I wanted to have you on the show because you are relaunching your best-selling
00:02:23.060 book, The Sovereignist Handbook. Tell us first about the book and then what prompted the relaunch.
00:02:30.680 Sure. I wrote the book almost three and a half years ago where I saw even then, I mean,
00:02:36.600 the independence movement was really starting to gain some steam and collect some strength.
00:02:41.160 And I could tell that they were organizing. But over 20 years of being in and out of independence
00:02:46.760 movements and parties and things, I saw a lot of the same old mistakes were being repeated.
00:02:51.760 We keep hitting against the same wall. And I figured, well, you know what, I'm going to document what I know, what I've learned and get that out there in a book form so that these advocates at least can get some degree of shared experience to go forward with this and make brand new mistakes rather than the ones I already did on their behalf.
00:03:11.220 So it came out to, it's been quite successful and been well received by a lot of people.
00:03:17.980 And I think it's really helped.
00:03:19.080 When you have a non-partisan sort of movement like this getting together, you need some guidance on how to properly campaign what you wouldn't, you know, you would normally have with a party.
00:03:28.420 We just don't have that in this sort of circumstance.
00:03:30.240 Now, I found your book very helpful because not only does it tell us the conversations that we probably should be having, but how to have those conversations, how to broach those conversations in, I don't want to say a non-confrontational way because I don't think that's it.
00:03:48.780 But to have those conversations with people who have never thought about independence before, I found that to be very helpful. And, you know, as you say, you are doing your best to help people to avoid mistakes that you have made in the past.
00:04:04.780 And you are right to say that this is a unique situation in Alberta, rather than what we see in Quebec, where there's a provincial separatist party, a federal separatist party. This is happening outside of the party movement. And I think, frankly, that works to the benefit of separatists like you and me, because we don't have those partisan disagreements about what our future should look like.
00:04:33.940 Yeah, I mean, a party automatically brings a whole lot of baggage with it.
00:04:37.240 You've got the internal structure to deal with.
00:04:39.300 You've got, unfortunately, power structures and battles that can happen within there.
00:04:43.260 Plus, you have to carry a tremendous policy set in order to be a party that you're bringing forward to win elections for.
00:04:50.360 I mean, if you're an independence party alone, that's fine.
00:04:53.180 But voters still want to know about health care policies.
00:04:55.740 They want to know what education.
00:04:56.700 And it deletes from the focus of something that is just a subject all on its own, which is independence, which really we can't come at that with a scattered approach.
00:05:08.540 You've got to come straight forward and take that issue on.
00:05:11.640 And it's going to be a person to person sort of thing, which I think makes it gives it much more strength than what a party or any other group could ever give it.
00:05:20.600 Because this is a passionate issue.
00:05:22.500 It's an emotional issue for people on both sides.
00:05:25.920 And I wanted to counsel people, you know, to keep that in mind.
00:05:29.020 When you're talking to a person who's considering independence or on the fence,
00:05:34.200 but if you get in their face and start being aggressive, chances are you're going to push them the other way.
00:05:40.640 You need to have an inclusive conversation.
00:05:42.760 You need to have a back and forth.
00:05:44.200 And, you know, all the evidence is there for us.
00:05:46.800 And with time and conversations, we can bring the people over.
00:05:49.920 But we've got to be a little less aggressive in the approach when it's those sorts of conversations.
00:05:54.940 So I lend that kind of guidance to it within the book, because it's not necessarily as much as formal campaigning or communications, but that real one-on-one that's going to be required to bring people over.
00:06:04.740 Yeah, it's the organic grassroots movement that the mainstream media is accusing of being Russian funded or American fomented. And again, pointing back to that nonpartisan point of all of this, in much of our polling data that we've done at Act for Alberta, full disclosure, I'm the point person over there.
00:06:31.840 that's a third-party advertiser group, we've seen that one of the single biggest drivers
00:06:37.920 of the independence conversation isn't pipelines. It's actually immigration. And that is,
00:06:46.300 other polling data shows that that is a completely nonpartisan issue. As in, when you tell an NDPer
00:06:53.460 what the actual immigration numbers are, even they will say, oh, hang on, that's way too much.
00:07:00.040 And so, you know, when you take what we know from the independence polling and what we know from political polling data on the immigration issue, it's very clear that independence, while it is sort of living within the UCP realm a fair bit, I mean, our own polling data shows 60% of UCP voters would support independence, but the issues themselves are quite nonpartisan, including the key driving independence issue.
00:07:27.460 Yeah, absolutely. You know, immigration is a subject that really hasn't been coming to the fore as much as it should be. I'm glad you guys identified that through that polling, because it is on people's minds. And it is a cross political spectrum sort of thing. As you rightly pointed out, even NDP supporters realizing mass immigration was too much. It went too far. It's caused consequences and problems. Or if you even speak to new Canadians in the immigrant community, they're saying the same thing.
00:07:55.440 They came here through the rules, they're settling in, they're trying to build a future for themselves and their families, but they're realizing they can't access health care, they can't get into good schools, or they're busing their kids a long ways because we've just had such an influx, plus some of the cultural issues with a large number of immigrants from very culturally incompatible nations that we can absorb a degree of, but when it comes massively again, it makes it much more difficult. 0.99
00:08:22.860 Well, this is an issue that I think the independence movement actually needs to focus much more on, because how else are we going to escape this mess? The federal government just offers a lip service and they aren't doing anything to bring this under control. Independence is one of the ways that that could be accomplished. 0.97
00:08:37.940 so now that we've talked a little bit about the independence issue and uh what was in the first
00:08:45.500 iteration of your book what has prompted this um it's not a rewrite it's an update to your book
00:08:53.180 why now it's because so much has changed in this last three and a half years even since i wrote it
00:08:59.000 so the core principles on how to promote independence and get involved and everything
00:09:02.700 Those haven't changed. And that remains within the book. But I did realize, for one, I added a large chapter, for example, just on door knocking, because it's clear this this campaign, whenever it fully comes formally, that's how it's going to have to be won is door by door, person by person.
00:09:18.640 And that's an activity that is very difficult to coordinate without a party at the head of it.
00:09:23.660 So I wanted to add that.
00:09:25.560 I wanted to bring more context in as to how we got here, just some of the events and happenings that came about in this last year, because it's just been tumultuous.
00:09:35.260 I mean, some of the things with the court ruling recently and other aspects, those just broke within the last few days.
00:09:43.020 I'm already saying, geez, those would really go well within that book, too.
00:09:45.400 But I'd be writing forever if I'm trying to keep it constantly up to date.
00:09:48.000 But it really knocked the dust off. It brought some of the more contemporary issues into it and the focus on how a referendum is going to look and how it's been developing so that people can focus even more effectively on that.
00:10:01.760 So it'll be a much more useful guide for people reading that book now than it was even three years ago.
00:10:07.340 Now, I want to talk to you a little bit about that court ruling where several First Nations, however, not all, including the activist anti-oil chief Alan Adam, were able to have the referendum on secession sort of put on ice, claiming that they weren't properly consulted.
00:10:31.140 The provincial government is going to appeal, which has resulted in Daniel Smith, an avowed federalist, being called a separatist for, I suppose, respecting the voting rights of Albertans.
00:10:43.880 Well, although our government does support Alberta remaining in Canada, we think that today's decision by the court will deny opportunity to well over 300,000 Albertans to have their petition verified by Elections Alberta.
00:10:57.080 we think that this decision is incorrect in law and anti-democratic and we will be appealing it
00:11:04.860 as a result our cabinet and caucus will of course be meeting in the next couple of days
00:11:09.860 to discuss the full context and make some decisions after we've had a chance to talk it through
00:11:14.660 i want you i'm going to ask you to speculate how do you think this is all going to play out
00:11:19.640 is a superior court going to hear this and say that's crazy citizens don't have the responsibility
00:11:26.360 to consult with First Nations that kicks in after the vote with the government?
00:11:32.920 Like, where is this going?
00:11:34.500 Will we see a referendum on October 19th?
00:11:38.100 Well, a couple of things.
00:11:39.420 I mean, I think we'll see one, though I'm not sure if it's going to be
00:11:42.140 maybe the one that initially was put forward by Stay Free.
00:11:45.960 It's definitely put it in the lap of Premier Smith, and she's stuck with it.
00:11:49.840 If we're going to go through the process of appeals,
00:11:51.660 even if somehow a higher-level judge, which I really doubt they would then
00:11:55.880 rule in favor of more citizen engagement because that's just not been their trend uh that could
00:12:00.880 take months maybe a year or some so if it's going to go through the appeals route then there's no
00:12:05.300 way there's going to be any referendum on the table this october uh if the premier schedules it
00:12:11.080 well then there's nothing to stop at that point though then there's risks of of uh court injunctions
00:12:16.500 and so on if it's a constitutionally compliant one through the clarity act because that endless
00:12:21.640 question of it's not whether or not they're consulted with indigenous people it's whether
00:12:25.700 there was enough or whether it was correct and there's no definitions of what that is so i think
00:12:29.660 federalists have found a way to shut down any effort on a constitutional uh uh referendum not
00:12:36.120 to say again that it won't be held but the battles are going to be fierce going throughout this so
00:12:41.600 smith is in a tough position because the the independence groups some of them their heads
00:12:46.280 they're already calling for her head they feel she must put this on the the ballot or they're
00:12:51.500 going to come after her through party mechanisms and memberships. And she's in a rock and a hard
00:12:56.220 place. So something's going to happen, I think, in this next week or so. Just exactly what it
00:13:00.920 looks like. We're going to have to wait a few days to find out. I hope she dumps it on Thomas
00:13:05.820 Lukasik's lap. Thomas Lukasik from Forever Canada, who successfully collected enough signatures
00:13:14.960 and then submitted them to Elections Alberta for verification.
00:13:20.360 He could have, I think potentially, I think he did trigger a referendum on secession,
00:13:26.440 whether he likes it or not.
00:13:28.060 And I think it would be wise of Premier Smith to just say,
00:13:31.020 look, Thomas Lukasik triggered one. Let's rumble.
00:13:35.840 Yeah, it would be a way to go.
00:13:37.360 A kind of an out.
00:13:38.060 You say, well, look, this one passed the bar.
00:13:39.860 There's no court injunction.
00:13:41.300 Let's schedule it and get it on there.
00:13:43.160 The other one isn't dead, but now we've got to wait for the courts to deal with all of that.
00:13:47.420 In the meantime, everybody, if you want to campaign on this particular issue, thank Mr. Lukaszek and get out there and work on getting your voice to one side or another on it.
00:13:56.380 And it's been quite funny to watch Lukaszek squirming on this and just outright denying that he wanted to trigger a referendum.
00:14:04.340 He signed a document literally saying he wants to trigger a referendum.
00:14:09.360 He did videos back then saying he wanted to have a referendum.
00:14:14.940 I don't know how he feels he can just keep being contrary to his own actions.
00:14:19.160 I guess just hoping everybody forgets, but we're not going to let him forget.
00:14:23.860 No, no.
00:14:25.420 It's funny to watch people now attempt to rewrite their own history, Jason Kenney included.
00:14:31.420 And that's why I'm so happy that you're working with me on a project through ACT for Alberta.
00:14:37.360 It's called Alberta Fact Check.
00:14:39.360 You and I get up very early in the morning and then we get working to see what misinformation has been peddled in the mainstream media or by federalists or by activist chiefs or by columnists.
00:14:54.520 And we do our best to debunk these people and not in a partisan way again, but just strictly please the facts.
00:15:05.220 And I believe the facts, you know, the the arc of facts bend towards independence and the arc of facts generally bend towards small government and personal responsibility.
00:15:17.560 And so we do that every single day. You do a handful. I do a handful.
00:15:23.880 Tell me why. Look, I know why I wanted to get involved, but you tell me why you wanted to get involved.
00:15:28.960 Well, just as approached with it, probably similar reasons.
00:15:31.400 I mean, we've seen the opposition playing kind of, as I mentioned with Lukasik, just so loose with the truth, and they're not being countered by legacy media whatsoever.
00:15:41.140 I mean, Lukasik won't speak to the Western Standard where I'm working, and I doubt he's giving you guys any direct time, but he speaks to other interviewers.
00:15:50.120 And none of them have at least called him out and said, well, wait a minute.
00:15:53.300 You know, you said this a little while ago.
00:15:55.360 You're seeing the opposite now.
00:15:56.620 It doesn't mean they have to be in attack mode, but they should fact check these obvious mistruths.
00:16:01.660 And as long as he's getting away with it, we know that opponents to independents are going to do more.
00:16:06.240 And we've been doing this, what, barely a week yet.
00:16:09.040 And there's been no shortage of outright misinformation to counter that's out there.
00:16:14.900 And hopefully it provides a service when these opponents to independents are making their statements or thinking about making their statements.
00:16:22.040 They've got to remember, well, wait a minute, there's actually people dedicated to putting time in, to checking on these things, and they will call BS on me if I put it out there.
00:16:30.860 So maybe I'll reconsider what I was going to say.
00:16:32.980 So I think it's performing a very important service.
00:16:35.640 I sure hope so, because it's a god-awful hour to get up.
00:16:38.740 Yeah, it's five.
00:16:40.900 Just so everybody at home knows, it's five that we get up and we start working on these things outside of all of our other things that we do.
00:16:48.720 myself at Rebel News over at the Independent Press Gallery at Act for Alberta, you over at
00:16:54.100 Epoch Times and Western Standard, and then on your own YouTube channel. But I think this is important
00:16:59.580 because the lies are going completely unchallenged. And as much as it should serve as a gut check to
00:17:05.900 the liars, I hope to create a war chest, a bit of an encyclopedia for the independence movement,
00:17:15.600 so that when they are at the door and they are, you know, being countered by people in, you know,
00:17:21.980 in the most gentle of ways that, you know, Thomas Lukasik really didn't mean to do this.
00:17:27.220 Yes, ma'am, he did.
00:17:28.060 And I hope that we can arm people with the facts as they head out into the world
00:17:32.720 to make the arguments and have the conversations you detail in your book.
00:17:38.500 Exactly. There's a great reference right there for counterpoints to those commonly held misconceptions.
00:17:44.460 And you don't even want to fault some of the people at the door.
00:17:47.460 I mean, they're not all political wonks.
00:17:49.080 A lot of them just watch legacy media.
00:17:50.680 That's all they take in.
00:17:51.900 And they haven't seen that.
00:17:54.420 You know, getting in their face again doesn't help.
00:17:56.440 But if you can gently point out, well, no, actually, this misconception you're holding came about because of this that was said here.
00:18:03.860 But it has been determined that that just wasn't the truth.
00:18:06.580 And arming those advocates further with that sort of reference, it will provide a resource.
00:18:13.500 Yeah, it's a building thing. We're not just hitting issues as they come. They're staying on there. The Internet's forever. And it takes the bullets out of those Federalist guns.
00:18:22.700 One of the most shocking things that we found through our Act for Alberta polling is something that we've used multiple times in our Alberta fact check project is that 46 north of 46 percent of Indigenous people who responded to our poll of 3000 people, which we hired Main Street to do.
00:18:45.700 So we wanted a pollster that does work for all sides.
00:18:51.940 It would give us the numbers straight.
00:18:55.240 Main Street found that 46% of Indigenous people right now, without any convincing, would vote for independence tomorrow.
00:19:04.540 And, you know, we the mainstream media peddles this as a monolith of Indigenous people who are fundamentally opposed to independence.
00:19:15.520 But it's not true. It's just the chiefs who want to maintain the status quo because they benefit from the status quo.
00:19:22.720 And apparently their own people and the votes of their own people be damned.
00:19:30.600 I think the work that we're doing to give those people a voice as they're being roughshod, run over by their own leadership, I think is really important.
00:19:40.600 oh yeah that was a fantastic and unexpected i was kind of floored when i saw that come through too
00:19:46.220 but i saw the the amount of people you guys polled and what came in i mean this is a
00:19:50.100 significant number it's not an outlier there and that might help encourage it i mean if anybody's
00:19:56.580 being served poorly by the status quo it's indigenous members on the ground in the reserves
00:20:00.540 they're having a terrible time all we hear from are these chiefs and activists and lawyers and
00:20:05.360 bureaucrats but not the people living in there but in a poll we did hear from the people living in
00:20:10.120 there and maybe a few more if they're watching alternative sources of news because that's the
00:20:14.280 only way i could feel that they would start supporting this sort of thing they're going
00:20:17.720 to see that sort of polling them and realize you know what maybe my neighbors weren't all
00:20:20.760 necessarily against this maybe we should have some conversations and uh that sort of you know
00:20:26.440 to see a budding movement coming out from the indigenous communities would be magnificent to
00:20:32.000 see and you can see some of the response that hysteria from one of the in the legislature from
00:20:36.840 one of the MLAs in denial of your polling results shows that the Federalists realize what a weak
00:20:41.860 spot they have there. And if you guys hadn't have done that poll, I have to admit, I never would
00:20:45.840 have estimated that there was such support hiding out there on those reserves. So I can understand
00:20:49.300 why it's there. Yeah, it shocked me. But if anybody should be upset with the federal government
00:20:54.920 and their paternalistic ways, it should be the Indigenous people. And, you know,
00:21:02.100 So shame on the chiefs for disenfranchising them, for not giving them the ability to vote.
00:21:08.000 And as my friend Tamara Leach says, she has never been once consulted as a member of the Métis Nation.
00:21:14.220 She's never been once even asked what her viewpoint is on this by the leadership of the Métis Nation.
00:21:21.540 So I'm happy to say we might be the first people who did that.
00:21:26.100 I hope that a lot of them appreciate that there was a different, you know, somebody representing that segment of their voices.
00:21:31.840 It's got to be frustrated. I mean, the chiefs have been acting as gatekeepers.
00:21:35.340 It's difficult to find out what is happening within those reserves.
00:21:38.360 You can't even go on to them without risking a trespass charge if you want to speak to people.
00:21:43.060 So with a dial and polling method to find out, wait a minute, there's different views there than what these gatekeepers of information and control, you know, through the chiefs have been letting people know in general.
00:21:55.320 And I hope a lot of people have been chewing on that and thinking about it.
00:21:58.780 it helps change the perspective of both on the reserve and off, I think, for people on this
00:22:04.040 whole issue. Yeah, as Ezra pointed out, if an independence vote happened and only Indigenous
00:22:12.920 people were allowed to vote, we just might win. Yeah, that of all identifiable groups is actually 0.73
00:22:20.200 the strongest level of support across the board. That was astounding. And again, though, once you
00:22:26.000 got that reality check and you start to think about it and you realize no it does make sense
00:22:30.160 actually it makes perfect sense if you're in that condition and you see a potential lifeline to
00:22:34.960 really just finally shake and break that system up to make something better you're going to reach
00:22:40.420 out and and uh look at something you know which would be considered a radical change like
00:22:44.220 independence it makes perfect sense in hindsight now cory before i let you go because i know you've
00:22:50.300 got a real job and I've got many, many real jobs as well. Tell people how they can get a new copy
00:22:57.220 of your book. Even if you have the old copy, get the new copy, get the relaunch because it's full
00:23:02.680 of new stuff. It's available now. Tell people how they can get that and then do tell people where
00:23:09.520 they can find you because you're in many, many places doing a lot of work. Yeah, I'm all over
00:23:13.860 the place. But yes, SovereignTistHandbook.com. It's up there. That'll take you straight to the
00:23:18.120 amazon site it's there and digital and hard hardcover and and paperback uh for those who
00:23:24.480 already have a copy it's a it's a worthwhile update i mean the old copy isn't out of date
00:23:28.020 you can still give that to a friend and maybe buy a new one for their friend as well uh as far as me
00:23:33.240 i'm on westernstandard.news i have a youtube channel if you search cory morgan i write a
00:23:38.460 column for the epic times and of course on x if you really want to have a an exchange it's
00:23:44.500 Cory B. Morgan. And I tend to be pretty responsive there. And albertafactcheck.com.
00:23:51.060 Oh, of course. This is so many spots I'm popping up on. And yes, albertafactcheck.com. And watch
00:23:57.840 that X account. It's been really good at putting those out there as soon as they break.
00:24:01.940 Yes. And maybe a suggestion to people who already have a copy of your book,
00:24:07.560 put it in the little free libraries and then get a new one.
00:24:10.980 There we go. I like it.
00:24:14.380 Yes. All right, Corey, thank you so much. We'll have you back on very soon.
00:24:17.420 And I know you're a frequent guest on the Rebel Roundup Buffalo panel.
00:24:21.080 So we appreciate you for taking the time to do that as well.
00:24:23.960 Always a pleasure having a conversation on these kinds of issues.
00:24:34.620 Well, as always, the last portion of the show belongs to you at home, because, of course, without you, there is no Rebel news. 0.91
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00:26:07.220 are on the launch video where I introduce the world to AlbertaFactCheck.com where Corey Morgan
00:26:19.700 and I do our best to digest and debunk the lies of the mainstream media about the independence
00:26:27.400 movement. Whether you agree with independence or not, I think we can all agree that there should
00:26:33.880 be some truth in the conversation instead of whatever misinformation is being peddled to us
00:26:40.100 by the mainstream media and their Federalist friends from the left and the right. I'm looking
00:26:45.860 at you, Jason Kenney, and Thomas Lukaszek, two sides of the exact same coin. Well, let's get into it.
00:26:55.300 user ik6my8ip1b as if that's your real name says who needs enemies when Canada has the CBC
00:27:07.040 yeah it wouldn't be so bad if CBC were just the enemy of Canadians um that's that would be their
00:27:13.540 right if they were doing it on their own but instead they are the enemies of the very people
00:27:21.820 who are funding them i.e canadians to the tune of a nearly 1.5 billion dollars a year
00:27:29.920 plus exclusive government contracts for advertising and the like
00:27:35.300 all right alexander the free says first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they
00:27:41.800 fight you then you win i think we're in the then they fight you stage of this because
00:27:48.780 you know for months they sort of wrote off the independence movement as cute non-existent
00:27:53.640 but even conservative by conservative I mean cautious polling data puts it at one in three
00:28:00.340 Albertans that are hard leave that's 33 percent that's more people than would vote for Mark Carney
00:28:10.120 or the NDP for that matter so that's a serious political movement that doesn't even have a leader
00:28:16.220 just exists completely outside of the partisan party apparatus that's a lot and so now we're in
00:28:25.400 the trying to demoralize you stage when now that you know the powers that be have realized that
00:28:34.000 it's not something that you can't ignore now they're trying to demoralize you by lying about 0.93
00:28:40.180 you and making fun of you calling you a fringe radical calling you a kook and a crazy jason 0.89
00:28:44.760 kenny i'm talking about you um saying you're foreign funded calling you a ditch billy that's 0.97
00:28:52.820 something that i've seen quite frequently on the internet calling people hillbillies as if that's
00:28:59.380 an insult to someone like me those name those names and that um deep personalization and the
00:29:11.380 personal attacks that just hardens the resolve of people like me so I guess keep it up
00:29:20.980 keep it up guys Jeff Brian three two two four they drove Alberta out now they want to scare
00:29:28.920 it back in exactly they didn't want anything to do with us remember when Trudeau forgot to mention
00:29:36.740 Alberta in his Canada Day message it's like we didn't exist and now Canada
00:29:44.060 wouldn't exist without us well then they should have acted like that instead they
00:29:50.060 wrote us off told us to sit down and shut up and when we stood up and started
00:29:55.580 talking now they're but we need their permission to do those things sorry I
00:30:02.240 I think we're past that.
00:30:07.860 What'sKelug says, appreciate the rebel, the other side of the story.
00:30:10.860 Thanks.
00:30:11.160 You know, that's what I'm trying to do here with Alberta fact check.
00:30:14.700 And again, I reiterate, it doesn't matter if you agree with independence.
00:30:22.180 but hopefully you can agree that Alberta is Albertans should be able to decide for themselves
00:30:29.520 and have the opportunity to decide for themselves because they're not even
00:30:33.840 having the opportunity at this point that's just been snatched away from them
00:30:37.920 by a Trudeau appointed judge from New Brunswick but we should at least be dealing in the facts
00:30:45.040 trading in the facts and the federalist side of this is not at all and if you can't make your
00:30:56.820 arguments honestly what does that say about the strength of your arguments
00:31:00.780 Dolores Grenail Grenai the more they do the stronger the movement gets yeah you know uh seeing
00:31:11.520 the court decision to snatch away the right to have a referendum and only this referendum
00:31:19.720 you know the coal referendum if it achieves its signatures it probably won't um it won't have to
00:31:26.420 face this level of scrutiny it won't have to face indigenous consultation thomas lukazic's question
00:31:32.680 that cory and i talked about where he accidentally triggered uh and i don't think it was an accident
00:31:38.360 he just realizes that maybe he might lose now where he triggered a referendum on separation
00:31:43.720 whether he wanted to or not from forever canada his petition won't face the same sort of legal
00:31:50.680 challenges none of the recall petitions that all failed against the ucp they didn't have to
00:31:56.760 face indigenous consultation it's just this one and when people see that it makes them realize
00:32:03.480 that there is a structural unfairness targeted at Alberta and a lot of people
00:32:14.040 are are coming to terms with the fact that maybe this can't be fixed because
00:32:21.720 no matter what we do there will be a federalist judge or an activist group
00:32:29.100 that will bend the ear of a liberal appointed judge because we can't
00:32:34.200 appoint our own judges we have no say in that that will do whatever the federal
00:32:38.700 government wants and the federal government will overreach and do
00:32:42.180 whatever they want and you know the more they attack the movement the more people
00:32:49.920 are coming to terms with
00:32:52.940 the problems of Canada.
00:32:58.300 They just get laid bare all the time.
00:33:00.540 You know, when we say the Supreme Court
00:33:03.300 and the court appointments don't reflect our values
00:33:06.860 and then we get a judgment like this
00:33:08.040 where people just want to have a vote.
00:33:11.800 Yes or no.
00:33:13.100 And just put the issue to bed. 0.95
00:33:14.240 We're not even allowed to have that.
00:33:15.800 justme6091 as always great job rebel news well it is a big job because as Corey and I said
00:33:25.620 we're getting up at five to do this before we start our regular work days and then we pick
00:33:31.180 away at it sometimes during the day and the evenings as well so we've added mostly an extra
00:33:36.660 work day to our entire day and he's a very busy man he's over at Epoch Times he's at Western
00:33:42.020 standard he has his own youtube channel he's helping now over at alberta fact check you know
00:33:49.860 that i have a lot of responsibilities over here at rebel news i'm on the live stream every day i try
00:33:55.700 to do a video every day i write articles at rebel news uh i'm the president of the independent press
00:34:00.580 gallery and i'm involved with act for alberta third-party advertisers so for corey and i this
00:34:06.340 is very important to us the truth is important and so we just want to make sure the truth is
00:34:13.300 out there and if it means getting up early to invent hours in your work day we're both willing
00:34:19.880 to do that teddy jellybean rebel news is real news we try to be you know and i'll be honest with
00:34:30.640 you we have a conservative bent we do have our biases but as I said to Corey I believe the arc
00:34:37.640 of truth bends toward conservatism and I'm not going to lie to you about my biases that's what
00:34:44.140 makes us different than the CBC you don't have to pay for me if you don't want to you don't have
00:34:49.020 that choice of the CBC and I'll tell you what my opinions are instead of producing my opinions as
00:34:57.080 fact and then saying that I don't have any opinions I'm just some sort of news automaton
00:35:01.960 as they claim over at the CBC we know they're biased they just lie about it and they expect
00:35:07.100 you to pay for it I'm biased too but I'm honest about it and if you don't want to flip a few bucks
00:35:12.640 our way well that's okay too we got lots of free stuff for you to watch well everybody that's the
00:35:18.560 show for today thank you so much for tuning in I'll see everybody back here in the same time in
00:35:22.040 the same place next week and as always don't let the government tell you that you've had too much
00:35:25.960 to think.