SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ RCMP secretly feared Alberta could break away — decades on, the warning still echoes
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An RCMP memo reported by Blacklock's shows Ottawa once feared Alberta s premier could trigger Western separation. Joining me on the show tonight to discuss all this and more is Convoy Lawyer and Separatist Influencer Keith Wilson.
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An RCMP memo reported by Black Locks shows Ottawa once feared Alberta's premier could trigger
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Western separation. It is January 26, 2026. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching
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In 1981, the RCMP wrote a secret memo warning that Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed could
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potentially lead Western Canada out of Confederation. The memo came from the RCMP's counter-terrorism
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unit and was later released through Access to Information, partly censored and first
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reported by Black Locks reporter. The RCMP said Western separatism did not yet have a
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dynamic leader, but argued it could succeed if one emerged. They identified Lougheed as
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that possible leader. Quote, an individual who is considered a potential leader is the
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Premier of Alberta, Peter Lougheed, the memo said. The Mounties noted that Lougheed had publicly
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rejected separatism and described himself as a Canadian first, but they added that his actions
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in oil pricing negotiations during the National Energy Program suggested, quote, he harbors
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latent thoughts of independence. So they did a terrorism assessment? The memo said Western
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separatism lacked a Rene Levesque type figure, but warned that if Lougheed or someone similar
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began advocating for independence, it could become a reality. The RCMP linked rising Western alienation
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to longstanding grievances, discriminatory freight rates between East and West, feelings of political
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alienation from Ottawa, exploitation of Western natural resources for Eastern industry, and the
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belief that the West received less from Ottawa than it contributed. Honestly, nothing has changed.
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The memo also pointed to the party Québécois victory in 1976 as proof that a well-organized
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and well-funded party could potentially lead a province out of confederation, but they didn't.
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However, I think we just might. Groups named in the document included the Alberta Farmers Union,
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Canada West Federation, Saskatchewan Taxpayers Association, and the Western Canada Concept,
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an independence party that elected one MLA in Alberta in 1982, in old. The RCMP wrote that
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separatist activity increased after the 1979 federal election, driven by feelings of political alienation
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from Ottawa, and of course, that age-old exploitation by Eastern Canada. The memo concluded that Alberta was
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the most likely province to agitate for separation. Still is. The memo read that indications are that
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Western alienation could grow stronger, especially in Alberta. Yeah, I know. Footnotes attached to the
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memo showed RCMP monitoring of Western independence movements dated back to 1946 with the founding of the
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Western Canada Federation in Saskatoon by a local tax protester. The RCMP's assessment was that Western
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Western discontent was long-standing, still is, organized, getting better, and centered most strongly in
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Alberta. Some things never change, and that without a leader like Lougheed, it had stalled, but not
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disappeared. However, now the movement is larger than ever. It's totally grassroots. Outside of party
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infrastructure, there are no official spokespeople, and I think closer to leading Alberta out of confederation than
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ever before. So maybe the RCMP were wrong. They should not have feared one man, but rather many,
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maybe the majority of people in Alberta. Joining the show tonight to discuss all this
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and more is Convoy lawyer and separatist influencer, Keith Wilson, up after the break.
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If you got all your news from the mainstream media, you honestly wouldn't know a single
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thing about what's happening at town halls in small towns and big cities all across this beautiful
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province. There is something afoot. I've witnessed it with my own eyes, and although I'm recording this
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on Monday morning, when this goes live on our website, the, I believe, single largest independence
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rally occurring indoors in our nation's history will be taking place in Calgary at the Big Four
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building. Joining me now is independence influencer, but you know him as a convoy lawyer too, Keith Wilson,
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to talk about the independence movement and what is happening in this province because I've been to
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these petition signings where they're attempting to gather 177,000 signatures in the statutory 120 days.
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I think we're about nearing a month into it. It's not the old, miserable, angry white men that the
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mainstream media would have us all believe. I've gone out there to talk to them, unlike the mainstream
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media. Keith, thanks for coming on the show. What is your sense of who are the proponents of Alberta
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independence? Well, I think it's Albertans who are very much alive to what's going on in Canada.
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And alive to what's going on in the world around them and that are acutely concerned about the future
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for themselves, but more importantly, their children and their grandchildren. They're concerned about
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some of them, if they're at a retirement or close to retirement age, they're concerned about what the
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cost of living continual increases are under the Liberals with their failed policies. And they're
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concerned about what's going to happen to their investments. So they're invested in this problem
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and they're invested in the solution. You know, one of the things that you may have encountered,
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Sheila, when you go to one of these signing events and see the long lines and the people in it
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is the energy, the camaraderie, the hope, but also the steely determination.
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So, you know, Albertans are very much alive to the problems that the federal government has created,
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the growing dysfunction, the growing divide within our country, both culturally, economically,
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and they're prepared to embrace a very significant change, which is to become an independent country.
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Not the 51st state, as Trump may want, but rather an independent country.
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You know, it's a complete cross-section of who and what Alberta is when you go to these things.
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You've got young families, you've got guys who are racing there after work in their coveralls,
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you've got new Canadians, and boomers. Because I think our boomers are drastically different than
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the boomers in Eastern and Central Canada. The ones I talked to at these independent signings
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are saying to me, Sheila, I may never see the fruits of what we're trying to achieve here,
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but we have to do it for our grandchildren. And then I think of the Eastern boomers,
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and that guy that gave the young people the finger because they wanted a different version of Canada.
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You can really see this stark cultural divide when you go to these petition signings between what's
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happening in the West and what's happening in the East.
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Absolutely. And I think, and you can see it in the legacy media, you know, it's just remarkable,
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the distortions. They're really creating a fiction that they're feeding. And it's, I mean, come on,
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why would I, why would that even be surprising? I'm catching myself here. It's not like they get their
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revenue from actually selling a newspaper or advertising in it or commercials on television
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anymore. I mean, they get a little bit of that, but the point is a little bit. They get huge,
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hundreds of millions of dollars worth of funding from the federal government. So they are effectively,
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and they behave as such a propaganda arm of the state. They have more similarities to a news reader
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in North Korea than they do to what a journalist is supposed to be coming out of journalism school.
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I don't even know why we have journalism schools in Canada anymore, because the only journalists
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left are folks like you and the crew at Rebel and other independent media outlets. So we're seeing
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the effects of that. And what it's doing, because so many Albertans, and I think those in the West and
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Saskatchewan as well, are awake to what's going on. You know, once you see the emperor without his clothes,
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you can't unsee that. You don't magically paint clothes back on this naked person. And I've tried
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to watch a couple of times CBC and other things. And the first thing I say to myself when I watch the
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news reader is I say to myself, that's not how you talk in the real world. In other words, I've met you
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in person, Sheila, how you're talking to me in the audience is how you speak. Right. Whereas these news
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readers, they put on this and breaking news today and that's not how they talk. They don't sit around
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the kitchen table and say to their one of their children, please pass the ketchup. Right. Right. It's fake
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right down to that level. And I think so many people are seeing through it. But but but so many aren't
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when we get into other parts of the country, they buy everything. You know, Carney's great,
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even though he hasn't achieved a thing other than, you know, more air miles points than any
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other sitting prime minister. You know, I'm glad you brought up the lies of the mainstream media.
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You know, and I shouldn't complain too much, because as long as they lie, I'll always have a job.
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But they are lying to people who know that the mainstream media lies now. And as you say,
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you can't paint the clothes back on the emperor. They aren't even trying anything new these days.
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You see the exact same lies directed at the independence movement that we saw directed at
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the convoy movement. Nobody believed it then. They're sure as heck not going to believe it the
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second time around. They're using, you know, that this is Russian funded. They're saying it's foreign
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interference. Anything but the grassroots movement of severely normal people who are tired of having
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the boot of the federal government on their back. Well, they can't. They have a hard time believing,
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I guess, if you're a liberal and a federalist, you'll only do something if you're paid.
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Right. You won't do something for free and volunteer your time because you think it's important, I guess.
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I don't know why they keep having to put these propositions forward. The amount of volunteer
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time that I've put in that I know everybody around me that I interact with on a regular basis has put in
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and is astronomical because we believe we're at an existential turning point. You know, we have we're
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either going to create this place called Alberta that's livable and prosperous and a place where our
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children can achieve their potential or we're all getting out. You know, we'll we'll be like so many
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who've left the country and go elsewhere. So we're motivated. We don't need money. We don't need
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the Russians or anybody else to fund anything. And it's just simply not what's happening at all.
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The the the legacy media is doing the handiwork for for their paymaster, their employer, which is the
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the head of their employer is a fellow by the name of Mark Carney, a short little fellow.
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And he's the head of the federal government and they pay they pay these guys salaries and they make
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sure that their paymaster. A perfect example of the extreme of this is the federal court of appeal
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ruling almost two weeks ago now by a unanimous ruling by three justices of the federal court of appeals.
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So all appointed, probably all by liberals, a stinging rebuke of excesses of government power,
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of excesses of government decision making, of abuse of power, of breach of charter rights of
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Canadians on a scale that is probably unprecedented. And traditionally under the Westminster system,
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we have the principle of ministerial responsibility where, you know, what happened years ago in the
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previous era, Minister Bev Oda spent too much money on a glass of orange juice and she had to resign.
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In other words, if you do something, you're responsible for a policy failure or you're involved
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in a decision that's unlawful or results in breach of charter rights. Traditionally,
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the concept of being a right honourable minister, right honourable, right? That implies a high ethical
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standard that you would resign. Not only have there been no resignations, there's been no calls for
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resignations short of me and a few other people calling for it on on Twitter, on X, and the legacy media
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hasn't at a single point scrum. In the old days, I was interviewed by Brian Lilly and he used to be,
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you know, a reporter in those scrums, both federally and provincially. Or no, sorry, it was Rick Bell who was
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provincial, but Brian Lilly, he was federal. And, you know, they would hound when the ministers came
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out of some meeting, they would say, you know, Mr. Minister, what's your response to the court's
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ruling? Are you going to resign? You know, what do you say to Canadians and few of the courts saying
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that you broke the law, right? And nothing. It's like, oh, Prime Minister, where are we travelling to next,
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sir? So Canada is so, the Canada that we, we dream about, we romanticise, does not exist.
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Yeah. And, you know, if we want to hold these people to account, by we I mean independent media,
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we have to fly to Davos to get anywhere near them to ask them questions, as was the case with
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Ezra asking Freeland about her role in the illegal invocation of the Emergencies Act. I'm glad you
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brought up Bev Oda, because the difference between Bev Oda and her $16 orange juice, and the rest of
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these unethical liberal liars is the pressure for Bev Oda to really resign came from fellow conservatives
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who didn't appreciate the optics of it all. Meaning that there, there are values that conservatives have,
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that they hold their leaders and their MPs to, and the Liberals have just this tribalist
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loyalty to power, at all costs, no matter what. And so they can't, they won't call for the
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resignation of their own if it jeopardises that stranglehold that they have on power,
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because that is really their only ideology. Well, and the net result of that, and I've seen that
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before here provincially, under the, during the Stalmac era, Stalmac was people were rewarded for their
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loyalty, not for their competence. And then policies and the administration that was occurring started
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to fail. So, and we've seen that on scale. Think back to 2015, when Justin Trudeau, the drama teacher,
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became the leader of the country of Canada and how badly things have gone. There's no expectation
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for competency. It's all about loyalty. Yeah. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Justin Trudeau's
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biggest portfolio that his own party trusted him with before he became the prime minister was, I think,
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the official critic for amateur sport. Like they're like, you know, you should be in charge of this
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place. Yeah. Not, not a great plan. I want to ask you about, because I know you probably have a very
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busy day today. The BQ leader, Blanchette, he is being treated with the utmost respect
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by the mainstream media. He's an avowed separatist. For some reason, he gets treated like his ideas are
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reasonable and that separatism is a constant and even achievable thing for the people of Quebec.
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But Alberta separatism is constantly written off as some sort of regional arrogance. And
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what are your reasons for this? For me, I think, well, it's because the liberals need Quebec to win.
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Well, there's that, but there's a, there's a, you know, if you, if you map out from the start of
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confederation, each federal election and go, you know, was it liberal? Was it conservative? It'll be
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like liberal, liberal, liberal, conservative, liberal, liberal, conservative, liberal, liberal,
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liberal, conservative, liberal, conservative, liberal, liberal, liberal. You quickly realize that the
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natural governing party of Canada is the liberal party because of the electoral math and part of
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the electoral math is skewed by Quebec and Ontario, heavily influenced by the, you know, the common phrase
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of the Laurentian elite. So, um, the Venn diagram would put the separatists, uh, in an overlap,
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the Quebec separatists would have put them in an overlap with the Laurentian elite. Whereas the Venn diagram
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overlay of Alberta, Albertans seeking independence is, circle is far, far away.
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Yeah. Yeah. There's not enough room on the page to get even a little bit of the circle.
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So, um, that's why, I mean, this, it's part of, part of who the media now believes it needs to serve
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in order. Look, when, when, um, when people get a job and they work for an employer, the natural right
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thing to do is to want to please your employer. Sure. And the employer of the reporters in the legacy
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media is the federal government headed by, uh, Mark Carney. So, uh, anything and, and, and his whole,
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his whole, uh, look at his cabinet and it's skewed towards Quebec. Uh, it's, it's remarkable. And not only
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that when I compared the list of cabinet ministers who are in Carney's cabinet today with the list
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of cabinet ministers who were in Trudeau's cabinet in February, 2022, when the invocation of the
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emergencies act occurred unlawfully and thousands of Canadians had their charter rights breached. Um,
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uh, there's seven cabinet ministers, uh, most of whom are from Quebec that were in both cabinets,
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right? So it's a cabal. Yep. It's a big party and we're not in it. And I'm not sure I even want to
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be invited to it. I'm glad you brought up the Quebec issue because one of the things that I hear at these
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town halls is that people are really angry about. And I think it is a cultural issue, the gun grab,
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you know, that we are being scapegoated, uh, for the failings of progressive cities and liberal policies
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in other parts of the country. But moreover to your point about constantly appeasing Quebec,
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Quebec appears to be the only province who thinks this is a good idea. And yet the liberals are going
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to expend so much political capital to try to push this thing down the rest of our throats.
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Well, I, I was been puzzled by this gun grab thing. So I did some research like, why are they doing
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this? It just, it's obvious on its face, you know, the driver for whether or not, whether or not a gun
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is allowed to still be legally used by trained licensed and vetted gun owners is whether or not
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it has blast black plastic features or black metal features is largely the test, right? Yeah.
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Uh, it's so it's, it's the scary looking gun law. Um, if you replace them with some nice mahogany or
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oak, uh, I guess it would be okay. But so what's driving this? I was puzzled. And, um, remarkably,
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my research indicated that over 80% of Quebec and some polls, 86% of Quebecers fully support this.
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Yep. And it could be for a number of reasons, uh, the, the more left lean socialist type
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thinking that pervades Quebec. Uh, but it's also because of the tragedies they had with some of
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the mass shootings, I believe. Well then make the law for Quebec, you know, but it illustrates another
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point. And I, this point is becoming more clear in my mind as each month and each week goes by,
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which is Canada is not the optimal unit for a country. It's too big. It's too diverse. Uh,
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culturally, the gun grabs a perfect example, uh, and it's too diverse, uh, regionally economically
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example. There would be the trade-off that China forced the government into with, uh, auto manufacturing
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versus prairie farmers, right? Um, if Alberta was a country and Saskatchewan was a country,
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um, the, and, and Ontario decided to put a tariff on EVs, it wouldn't have an impact on canola
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because we don't make EVs and we don't want to make EVs electric vehicles. And the analogy I came up
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with, I'm still trying to come up with a better one is, um, this whole concept of Canada being too big
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to be optimal and even governable. We're seeing that Polly has always got to pivot to the center.
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Those of us on out here in the prairies lose our mind. It's like, Pierre get speak truth to power.
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And then it gets all watered down because it's got a cell in Quebec and Eastern Canada,
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uh, and, and far Eastern Canada. So here's an analogy. Um, Edmonton has 1.1 million people,
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and I'm going to guess probably has a silly analogy. Uh, but I think it'll make the point
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probably has 25 McDonald's restaurants. Okay. Well, why not just have one? Why not just have
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one big, huge McDonald's somewhere in Edmonton to service 1.1 million people because it's not optimal.
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It's not optimal. It's not efficient. It's not peak performance. They've determined over years
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what the optimal size is and what the optimal market distance is around each one to maximize
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the convenience and efficiency for the customer and for the business, right? Well, um, I really believe
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the optimal size for people in Alberta to be governed by is the province of Alberta. In other words,
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make the province a country. We have sufficient landmass. We have, uh, the third largest reserve
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of oil and gas in the world. We have an abundance of resources. We'll be one of the richest, uh,
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countries in the world. We have the know-how. We have the drive. We have the entrepreneurial spirit.
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We have the, the infrastructure. We have the, uh, uh, leading edge technology in all areas
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and all of these things going for us. It gives us leverage to deal with, uh, current landlocked barriers
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that are policy locks, uh, such as BC through the federal government. And so I think, uh, the optimal
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size for, at least for Alberta to be governed is actually, uh, commensurate with the boundaries of
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Alberta. Canada is too big. Our views, our culture are too diverse. Our economies are too regional in
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nature where, where the government's forced to trade one against the other. It's a suboptimal situation.
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And we're witnessing the effects of it. Our decline is spectacular. The only thing that's
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increasing is lineup at food banks and poverty and despair. Yeah. We had the, we had a far wealthier
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middle-class under Stephen Harper than we do right now. The decline of the middle-class has been
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catastrophic in this country. And the liberals keep saying, you know, we got to do something about it.
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Well, I hope you guys find the people in charge and responsible for what's happened to this country
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in the last 10 years. They, they pretend like they are passive bystanders in this mess and the people
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in the East keep voting that way. Well, look at what, you know, I was, uh, uh, occasionally about
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once a week, maybe I do a post on X when prime minister is like, I'm traveling to so-and-so and,
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you know, we're going to build the Canadian economy, build it back. We're by paying jobs,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, if, if you really believe that, if that's really your
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goal, the first thing you will do like today is announce that you're going to repeal the amendments
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to the environmental assessment act, which are often referred to as bill C 69 or the no more pipelines
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act. That law doesn't just apply to pipelines. It applies to any big project, right? And it has
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ridiculous features in it. They could simply repeal those ridiculous features. They added to it and go
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back to the law that existed, uh, prior to, uh, 2016. And that would make it easier for investors to make
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the decision to make the investment decisions in Canada that have driven them away. Right? So he's
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traveling to these different places and I could just imagine him sitting down with some investors,
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whoever they might be. And they say, well, yeah, but are we still, so one of the things that, uh,
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bill C 69 did is it requires someone proposing to do a major project to assess the impact of the
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project on the intersection of gender, uh, sex, gender, and other minority identity factors.
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Yes. The GBA lawyer, no expert, no bureaucrat can agree on what even the phrase intersection means
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there and how it's to be applied other than agreeing. It's not a thing with a stoplight at it.
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Right. And so, so the investor could easily look across at him if they're sophisticated and did look
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at investing in Canada, or maybe we're about to and pulled out and could say, you know, prime minister,
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we, no one can meet this test. It's a, it's a, it's an impossible test to meet. Uh, it brings
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incredible risk and cost. Are you going to remove that? And he's obviously going to say, no, uh,
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when you look at all of the barriers and policies they've put in place that have driven investment
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away, what's the point in accumulating all these air miles and going to all of these other countries
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and trying to do trade deals. If we can't build the plants, the facilities, the minds, the processing
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facilities in the first place because of your stupid policies. So, um, I really think that these
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trips are about his ego. He just wants to show off, you know, show himself off, you know, when you,
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you know, uh, you know, when a 20 year old gets a new car, they want to drive it to their friends
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and say, Hey, look at my new car. Then they drive over to their other friend's house. Right. Look at
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my new car. Him, his, his new car is him as prime minister with his security detail and flying in our
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Canadian, uh, jet. Um, and I think he just wants to fly around and he, and I love these action shots.
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Like they always have the, put together these highly produced clips and he's always moving
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or he's walking around and pointing. And he, I just have this Kim Il, whatever his name is from
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North Korea vibe, you know, the dear leader. Next thing you know, we're going to have,
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we're going to have, uh, people around him with little, little notepads so they can write down
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everything. The dear Carney says, I mean, that's where it feels like we're going.
00:30:17.300
Yeah. We're this far away from him on a mountain top on a white horse, Kim Jong-un. Uh, yeah.
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They'll make sure it's a really small white horse. So he looks exactly. So he looks big instead of
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like a frail little old lady. Like he does. Uh, yeah. I, I don't think a lot of people know,
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you know, uh, you know, if you're in the know, you know, but a lot of people are aware that for
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these major companies to invest in a major project in Canada, they basically have to ask the local
00:30:47.940
feminist busy bodies, how the project makes them feel. And if you are a multinational oil company,
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look at that, or you just say, well, maybe I can just flip a few bucks to the local Algerian warlord.
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And my project gets done. Why would you invest here? Why would you? It's crazy.
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Uh, you wouldn't, you won't. And, and, and they're not, they aren't, we don't have to be
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hypothetical about it. I take your point. It's, it's happening. The, you know, uh, it's hundreds
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of millions of dollars or billions of dollars of investment of flat and, and the head offices
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are leaving. I mean, he moved Brookfield out. Right. His company. Right.
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And his family. So it's just terrible what, uh, these liberals have done to the country.
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Uh, Alberta has a path forward. We don't have to stay on this crazy train and more and more
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Albertans are realizing that. I agree. Now, Keith, I wanted to ask you about treaties, but I, I realized
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we're, uh, I'm up against the clock, but I know you are, you frequently answer questions like this on
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your YouTube channel and on your social media account. So tell people if they don't already
00:31:56.340
know how they can find you. Sure. I, um, uh, a couple of months ago, I started a YouTube channel
00:32:02.100
to try and provide, uh, accurate, balanced legal and other information on what's happening with
00:32:08.740
independence in Alberta. And, uh, you can just simply search my name and YouTube, uh, Keith Wilson,
00:32:14.500
Casey. Um, and then I'm on X at I, at I, uh, K Wilson, and I'm a very prolific there in terms
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of providing information as well. Great. Keith, thanks so much for coming on the show. Uh,
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are you going to be in Calgary tonight? I can't, I have, uh, meetings all afternoon today, so
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I'll be watching with great news. Yeah. Well, we're sending a rebel news team. We wouldn't miss it
00:32:41.780
for anything in the world. Keith, thanks so much for coming on the show and speaking up for Albertans
00:32:47.780
who just want a better way. Thank you very much. Thanks. Stay with us. Your letters to Ezra
00:32:53.620
unceremoniously read by me up after the break. Last portion of the show is always yours. We
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turn the show over to you because without you, there is no rebel news. So these are our rebel
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news plus commentators, your thoughts on Ezra's wrap up. I have, I think his highly successful
00:33:22.340
2026 Davos mission. Fran G writes, the work you are all doing looks very exhausting, but also
00:33:30.660
exhilarating and extremely rewarding. If I was younger, I would love to work for rebel news. That's funny.
00:33:37.060
You don't have to be young to work for us, but you have to be able to think on your feet.
00:33:42.900
I think Ezra was very motivated and very excited to be able to scrum people that he is unable to scrum
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in Canada. Thanks to the liberal government's censorship and control policies. Randy Nori writes,
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after watching the Chrystia Freeland Davos walk, I was so inspired. I immediately subscribed to rebel
00:34:09.940
news and made a $500 donation. Your team put her on the spot like no others can. She looked like a rat
00:34:16.900
that was trying to find something to hide under. Now that four judges have deemed her convoy actions
00:34:22.900
illegal. We need to pressure the RCMP to lay charges like they would against any other illegal act. I would
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like to see Ezra interview the RCMP to find out when this will all happen. Thanks for the hard work
00:34:34.180
in Davos. Without you guys, there is nobody in our corner. Randy. Well, Randy, I think there are a few
00:34:41.060
people in your corner, but it is true that we are not scared to put the tough questions to politicians.
00:34:48.180
And now those politicians know that there's no safe place to hide in the entire world. They may be able
00:34:54.180
to hide from our questions in Canada thanks to their censorship and control regulations by hiding on
00:35:02.820
the parliamentary precinct because the cabal of our competitors, the parliamentary press gallery,
00:35:08.580
doesn't allow us access to Parliament Hill. But if they're traveling around the world to places with
00:35:18.820
more regard for journalistic freedom than here in Canada, we're going to find them and we're going to
00:35:24.180
ask them tough questions like Ezra and the team did. Freeland has never been questioned on her illegal
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actions when she cackled at the thought of freezing innocent people's bank accounts. And now, as you say,
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four judges have determined that to be illegal. She should, at the very least, have some contrition,
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apologize for the people's lives that she could have ruined, but at the very least seriously disrupted.
00:35:55.940
And never forget, they used a hacked list to get those names from GoFundMe to go after those innocent
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people whose only crime was having the wrong politics. In a normal country, these people would
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be in jail, but this is Canada. We're not a normal country. And that is why so many Albertans, as you
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learned today on the show, want to leave. Now, Bruce Atchison, regular viewer of my show, The Gun Show on
00:36:23.700
Wednesday writes, interesting mix of attitudes tonight from Davos. I'm glad the police weren't
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officious and understood scrumming. That's been a tradition of journalists for the past two centuries.
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It's too bad people don't educate themselves in what matters. It's true. Politicians, as public figures,
00:36:44.980
are supposed to be accountable to the people. But since the people can't scrum them because the people are
00:36:50.900
living their lives to work hard to give the politicians money to spend journalists, it has
00:36:58.420
always been our job to speak truth to power. And so frequently these days, it is exactly the opposite.
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But I guess, again, it's a sad state of affairs that our team has to go to Switzerland to do the job
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we're unable to do at home. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. I hope that you didn't miss
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Ezra too badly. Thanks to everybody in the Toronto studio who puts the show together in these little
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files as I send it in. It's a little more chaotic when I do the show than when Ezra does. And I'm not
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sure who's hosting the show tomorrow. Could be me. Could be David. Could be, well, basically just me and David.
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I think it's David. Thanks for tuning in. And as Ezra says on the show here, keep fighting for freedom.