TRUMP BACKS Alberta Independence： Interview w Jeff Rath in DC Meeting ｜ Stand on Guard
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Summary
Live from Ottawa, David Craig is joined by Jeff Rath, legal counsel for the Alberta Prosperity Project and Katie Passatne of Universal Ostrich Farms to discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the CFIA.
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So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
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We need a political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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In the meantime, have a look at some of these clips
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and take the opportunity, please, to like this broadcast,
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I don't know that the government currently has fiscal anchors.
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We're calling on the government to introduce and immediately pass
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So we're coming at you live from Ottawa right now.
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Earlier in the day, of course, I sat down with Jeff Rath,
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I want to make this quite clear at the beginning of the broadcast.
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He was part of the contingent from Alberta that went down to Washington, D.C.
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to meet with key Trump aides at the cabinet level.
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Jeff Rath was part of a triumvirate that came from Alberta to Washington.
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And Donald Trump has given his approval of Alberta independence.
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Now, that is, of course, extremely, extremely important.
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And so, but before we go to this interview, I want to make it quite clear that
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And I want to make it quite clear that I just got off the phone with Katie Passatne
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She's given me an update on what's happening out there.
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So, after the Jeff Rath interview, we'll have the segment devoted to the latest.
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And, of course, one of the birds died yesterday.
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And it seems to be, apparently, because of gross neglect.
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And, like I said, Katie will be on the show next week at some point.
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God only knows what's going to happen tomorrow, but we'll have our eyes peeled.
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So, let's go to this interview with Jeff Rath right now.
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And after that, we will talk about Universal Ostrich Farms and what Katie is saying.
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My guest, of course, Jeff Rath, legal counsel for the Alberta Prosperity Project.
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And before we get started, Jeff, I just wanted to show you a clip here.
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The government seems to announce a deal with Enbridge and some other major companies
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to put forward a pipeline proposal, an oil pipeline.
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Fortunately for you, I think it's not going to go to Quebec.
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You've been critical of the Alberta government before.
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Let's imagine that Quebec is an independent and free country.
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We will go on the world's stages to say that Alberta is destroying the environment of the whole planet.
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I think they were probably a little more reasonable than this guy, this blockhead,
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But when you hear stuff like that, material like that, what do you think?
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Are these people living in the same universe as the rest of us?
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Well, I think what that tells us is that any dream that Daniel Smith has of getting some
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sort of pipeline deal done with Canada is complete fantasy.
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So Carney said repeatedly that for him to approve a pipeline is going to require a national consensus.
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You know, for me to approve a pipeline, it's going to require me staying in power.
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And it seems to me that Mr. Blanchet is saying that, you know, any pipeline approval,
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if he's true to his word and he actually believes that Alberta oil and gas development
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is more dangerous to the world, then the arteries clogged by Poutine, right, that he's not going
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to support Carney's government if Carney approves a pipeline.
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So again, it just underlines to Albertans why Canada doesn't work, why we need to get
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out of Canada, and why this entire country is broken.
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And that from an Alberta perspective, we just need to get the hell out.
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Well, I have a clip from Daniel Smith earlier this week.
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I want to talk about that, but let's get to the real news here.
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Of course, you met again with high-level, cabinet-level members of the President Donald
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What transpired, and what do you think the consequences will be?
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Well, I mean, I think one of the big things is I think it sent a bit of a shockwave through
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both the provincial government in Edmonton and Carney's government in Ottawa.
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I mean, our contacts with the Trump administration are every bit as good as theirs.
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And obviously, you know, these meetings wouldn't be taking place if there wasn't a massive amount
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of support within the Trump administration, if not from the President himself, for a free
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and independent Alberta, you know, for self-determination for the province of Alberta.
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You know, in the same way that President Trump announced that his joint address to Congress
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that he supported self-determination for Greenland, you know, it's clear that the Trump administration,
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as a matter of policy, supports self-determination for Alberta.
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And then, you know, the nature of these conversations in the meetings, you know, are confidential.
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But, you know, I wouldn't surprise anybody to know that the types of things that we would
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be talking to them about would be, you know, immediate recognition for Alberta by the United
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States as an independent country upon a successful referendum.
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That immediately upon the United States recognizing Alberta as an independent country upon a successful
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referendum, that we would immediately enter into the shortest free trade agreement in world
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history, being less than one page of paper that says simply that there will be complete free trade
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between Alberta and the United States, that there will be no tariffs on either side of the American
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and Alberta border, that there will be a free transposition of goods and services between
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Alberta and the United States with zero tariffs, and that the U.S. and Alberta effectively would
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create a common market between, you know, our two countries that would allow us both to prosper.
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So, you know, so those, you know, obviously would be would have been the, you know, would have
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been the major topics of conversation, you know, from our perspective, you know, we are, you know,
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also would have, you know, wanted to talk to the U.S. about, you know, the benefits to the United
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States of an independent Alberta. You know, one of the biggest benefits to the United States,
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obviously, of an independent Alberta is freeing up the world's third largest oil reserves
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from control by a Communist Party of China adjacent government in Ottawa. I mean, you know,
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we now live in a country, you know, Canadians now live in a country where the Prime Minister of Canada
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is more closely aligned with the Communist Party of China than he is with our largest ally in the
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United States of America. You know, and we see that every time, you know, and I think Carney's literally
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one of the biggest drivers, obviously, is one of the biggest drivers of independence for Alberta.
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Every time we turn around, the man does something new that's completely stupid and complete anathema
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to the province of Alberta and the United States that does nothing but benefit Communist China. I
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mean, we just have to go back last week, the government of Canada, you know, the Parliament
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of Canada, in response to a resolution put forward by Pierre Polyev, who also seems to be wanting
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to support Alberta independence, put forward a resolution to say that they're going to end
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the carbon cap on the province of Alberta. And Carney and his government voted unanimously
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to maintain the carbon cap against the government of Alberta. So obviously, that's not in the US
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interest that, you know, Carney's because the carbon cap is effectively an emissions cap,
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let's be straight, right. So, you know, the United States of America doesn't favour, you know,
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Alberta oil being shut in, it doesn't favour production caps in Alberta, you know, the United
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States wants Albertans to be able to produce as much oil as they can physically produce,
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to help the United States maintain a stable and affordable oil price, so that people don't have
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to pay more for gasoline of the pumps, diesel fuel to move their goods, and to allow both, you know,
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the Alberta economy and the US economy to thrive. Right? I mean, everybody knows, or anybody who isn't
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an idiot, okay, knows that one of the largest inputs to, you know, the price of goods in North America,
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you know, is the cost of energy. So, you know, we all want, you know, stable, low energy prices,
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and Mark Carney and Communist China wants to continue to make sure that the economy of North America does not
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function as well as it should. Because, you know, a North American economy functioning at full capacity,
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you know, the Chinese see that as a threat to their global hegemony. Full stop. And I mean, you know,
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we're, you know, like, we're, you know, Glenn Beck, I can now say that we were at the State Department,
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right, because Glenn Beck apparently this week confirmed that and has released that to the public. So,
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so that's out in the public. So obviously, I mean, the US State Department, one of its biggest roles is
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offsetting, you know, Chinese plans for total global domination, and the ongoing efforts of the
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Chinese to cripple the North American economy, you know, whether it's through cyber attacks,
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flooding our countries with fentanyl, now using Canada, you know, as the major source of fentanyl
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manufacture, you know, in North America to, to destroy, you know, the United States and Canada from
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within, you know, etc. So obviously, I mean, the US State Department and the US government has a
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national interest in thwarting, you know, these evil tactics and strategies being deployed by China
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in furtherance of its global domination. You know, so I mean, you know, and obviously from an Alberta
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perspective, and you know, as a guy with an honours degree in poli-sci that at one point in his life was
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studying foreign policy, it was a, you know, as an honours degree in law from the London School of
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Economics. I mean, these are the types of things that we agree with, with the US State Department,
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and see that Alberta, you know, and Canada should have the same interest. But Mark Carney, unfortunately,
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you know, apparently is more communist Chinese than he is North American.
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Right, yes, that's more his direct affiliation has been over the years. Interesting that Trump would
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talk about an independent Alberta and not, not the 51st state, he's still talking about Canada
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as a 51st state, whether he's jesting or not, it's hard to, it's hard to say, but he specifically
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talked about Alberta as an independent Alberta, not as necessarily a 51st state. So,
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well, there's a, there's a reality to that. I mean, that was, you know, that, again, hypothetically,
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would have been one of the things that could have been discussed at that meeting. And, you know,
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and that is, you know, that the, you know, from our perspective, and a US perspective in the State
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Department, there's a recognition that for Alberta to become a state, and it's the same way that Alaska
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became a state, you know, they had, you know, the Democrats were concerned that, you know, that,
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you know, conservative Republican Alaska, you know, very much the same types of attitudes,
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you know, as real Albertans, independent, you know, want to stand on their own, want very little
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government interference in their lives. You know, that, that Alaska would want to be,
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or they brought Alaska into the Union, that Alaska would add two more Senate seats to the Republican
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side of the ledger. So the trade off was they brought Hawaii in at the same time, right? So,
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you know, so let's have the hang loose people from Hawaii come in, and they'll vote Democrat,
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and the, you know, the, the Alaskans will vote Republican, and there's a balance. So, you know,
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the Republicans, I think, are of the view that if they tried to bring Alberta in as a state,
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that the Democrats in the Senate would be demanding not just Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rico
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and Washington DC as a trade off. And there's no appetite on the southern side of the border
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right now to open up any discussions of statehood, because I don't think there's any interest in
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further upsetting the balance of power, either in the Congress or the Senate,
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by creating two states that would vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
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It shouldn't surprise anybody that that would be the conversation or that that would be the,
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you know, that that would be the position of Republicans in the United States and the U.S.
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Yeah. I wanted to get your comment on this, this counter-referendum that's going on here from this
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former MLA. Do you believe these numbers? He's claiming 233,000 signatures. I find that,
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Well, we were, we were, we were, we were surprised by it, but apparently, I mean,
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I've confirmed it. Apparently that's, they've turned in to Elections Alberta, 230 somewhat signature,
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230,000 signatures. But when you look at the fact that they're, you know,
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that they're going in and they're gathering signatures from people with dementia in memory
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care units and old folks homes and, you know, all of these places where people haven't got a clue
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as to what they're signing. And, you know, that people don't even understand what the question
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really means, remain in Canada, you know, like forever, whatever, you know, you know,
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like, what does that question mean? It's already been referred to by a judge as a legally irrelevant,
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nothing burger of a question. The judge's words were nothing burger, not mine. So the judge referred
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to that question as a legally irrelevant, nothing burger. So, you know, our attitude is, first of
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all, you know, we are, you know, we're, we're surprised that, you know, the cassock was that
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organized, but, you know, they had all the unions on side, all of the lefties were on,
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all the left wing people at Alberta were on side and we're going out working for them. So, you know,
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we're not, you know, we're not shocked that that's where they're at. They have 25 days to go. They'll
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probably need another 100,000 signatures if they're to have a buffer, you know, to make sure that,
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you know, that they, you know, that all of their signatures comply. You know, and then at that point,
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it's kind of a big, so what? I mean, they put forward a policy question that's not binding, right?
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The question that we're going to be putting forward will be a binding constitutional question.
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Under the Referendum Act, our question has to be held as a standalone, you know, as a standalone
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question, right? So, by the time little Tommy's question gets on a referendum ballot with a bunch
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of other questions, you know, first of all, everybody in Alberta could vote no, which just
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opens the door, you know, to our question. Second of all, the government has the discretion as to whether
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to put that question on the ballot or not, or to put our question on the ballot, because obviously,
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you know, that question of Lukasik's doesn't comply with the Clarity Act. The Clarity Act requires that
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a question leading to separation states that the province wants to cease being a province of Canada
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and wishes to become an independent country, which is what our question does, right? So Lukasik's question
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really doesn't mean anything, you know, from that perspective. You know, I mean, it just is what it
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is, frankly, you know, I mean, you know, did it surprise me that he could, you know, get,
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be that organized? A little bit. But, you know, again, he's a former deputy premier. I mean,
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you know, he's got all of the, you know, all of the former socialist, progressive, conservative,
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you know, welfare premiers on side, like, you know, fast Eddie Stelmac, and, you know, some,
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you know, and a lot of the progressive conservative ilk that, you know, that do very well on government
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subsidies and handouts, right? So, you know, it's not, it's not totally surprising, right? You know,
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I mean, he told Danielle several months ago that he had 147,000 or a month and a half ago that he had
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147,000 signatures, and I kind of shrugged at the time, and I said, oh, with those numbers,
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you'll make, you'll, you'll, you'll probably make us 300. Yeah, no, but I, I suppose it's feasible.
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It's feasible. Yeah, as you say, he's, he's scouting the outer regions of the province to find,
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to find some of these people. Well, the other thing is, the other thing is, too, there's a real,
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there's an issue for him, because I think under the old act to get a question on the ballot,
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you know, that you needed to have 10% of the vote from two thirds of the constituencies in Alberta,
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and I'm not sure that they've managed to pull that off, or that they're going to manage to pull
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that off either. They, you know, I'm sure they got a lot of, a lot of signatures in Edmonton,
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right? You know, they got, you know, they, I'm sure they've gotten quite a few signatures,
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you know, from old folks homes in Calgary, right? You know, but, you know, do they have 10%
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from two thirds of the constituency associations across the province? It's doubtful.
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So, but we'll see. You know, we'll see. I mean, we're, we, you know, again, you know,
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like, as the judge said, we just see the whole thing as a, as a big nothing burger,
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and we're not overly concerned about it at this time.
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Were you surprised? We were talking yesterday, and, and you said you weren't really surprised,
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but I was surprised that Pierpoli of this week said, don't pay any attention to what the premiers say
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or do. It's all up to Mark Carney in terms of a pipeline. I mean, this guy has a
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seat now in Alberta, supposedly, and he's supposedly fighting for, for Alberta as an,
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as a member of parliament. Why would he say something like that? Because it seems to me
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to be playing right into Carney's hands. Well, Jenny Byrne must still be giving him
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political advice. I'm not sure. Right? Like, you know, he's been stepping all over
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Danielle. I'm like, Danielle, unfortunately, and I say this, and I mean this, unfortunately,
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Danielle is one of Pierre's big supporters. One of Pierre Pauly has big supporters.
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And in fact, I know for a fact, talking to, you know, Mitch Sylvester and talking to other people
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that are very, very close to the government, Mitch has excellent connections. He's a constituency
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association president, that the main reason that Danielle Smith did not just instantly repatriate
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the Alberta pension and send a letter to Alberta pension, or the Canadian pension plan,
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demanding that they return Alberta the $365 billion of the pension plan fund that belonged to Albertans,
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is that Pierre Pauly have literally begged her not to, because that would make his life more
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difficult running for prime minister. And so Danielle, oh, yes, we have to get a conservative
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government in Ottawa, because, you know, conservative government in Ottawa will be the savior of Alberta.
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So, you know, Danielle did not repatriate, you know, the Alberta cost, or the Alberta pension plan,
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or CPOK, sorry, Canadian pension plan dollars, at the behest and whining of Pierre Pauly have.
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Then Pierre Pauly have last week, really screwed Danielle, when he put forward that motion on the
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carbon cap, because don't forget, I mean, Danielle has been burning political capital, like a drunk
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lighting cigars with $100 bills, right? By going, oh, I'm getting along really well with Mark Carney,
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and my new boyfriend, Mark Carney, and I'm getting along really well. And he's a really good guy,
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and he's going to give us what we want. And, you know, I'm wooing him, and he's been wooing me,
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and oh, my goodness, we're going to get pipelines, and all the world is going to be so wonderful,
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because Mark Carney's really a good guy, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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So anyway, you know, so, and of course, she's getting nothing. So she hasn't got one of the nine
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bad that she refers to as the bad laws repealed. She hasn't gotten a pipeline. And then last week,
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along goes, and every time you turn around, she says, oh, I'm on Team Canada, and I'm so excited. Look,
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I'm wearing my red blazer and my white shirt, and I'm dressed up like a Canadian flag, and I'm so
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happy to be part of Team Canada, you know, like she's doing all that. And then, you know, along
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comes Blanchette, and there would never be an Alberta pipeline, because Alberta oil is filthy
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oil, and it's polluting the world. Or David Eby, it's like, our pristine British Columbia coast will
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not be imploded with Alberta oil and all this, you know, garbage, right? Every time, and I've said this
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more than once, because this has been going on for six months. Every time Danielle says that she's on Team Canada,
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and this is going to get her a pipeline, one of these bozos, whether it's Eby or Blanchette,
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or, you know, Legault, come out and literally cross-check her in the mouth. So, like, she's on
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this team, Team Canada, and every time she turns around, she gets elbowed in the head, cross-checked
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in the mouth, punched in the face, you know, whatever. I mean, who wants to be on that team,
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right? So there's been six months of this. Like, her political capital has just been flying out the
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window, right? And then last week, it was the same thing, right? It's like, you know,
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Pierre Polyev thinks it's a good idea for his perspective, because that's all he cares about,
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is what's good for him, right? Not what's good for Danielle, and not what's good for Albertans,
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puts forward this motion on, you know, the carbon cap on Alberta industry, and the Carney government
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votes unanimously to say no. So that left Danielle with, like, no room to move. She's looking really
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stupid, because she's given Carney six months. Not only has she gotten nothing from Carney with
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regard to these so-called bad nine laws, tanker ban, carbon cap, you know, etc., etc. You know,
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Carney, again, just slaps her in the teeth, votes along with all of his Liberal members to unanimously
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vote to uphold in Parliament, you know, the emissions cap and effectively production cap on Alberta
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oil and gas. And then that left Danielle with no room other than to come forward with this
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desperate gambit. And I call it her pipeline proponent gambit, where, you know, she announces
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this big fanfare, and oh my goodness, we have this major announcement coming up, I'm going to make this
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major announcement. And then she announces that, you know, she's going to go on her hands and knees,
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and big Mark Carney is a project proponent for a pipeline through British Columbia. You know, I mean,
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for Albertans, I mean, this was just like an embarrassment. You know, like, you know, and I
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think you and I were talking about this offline. So I'll try to keep my language a bit, you know,
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on a Sunday morning, if you're trying to keep my language a little bit more in line. But you know,
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Albertans are going, what the FNF like is going on here? Like, going and begging the FNF
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federal government for an FN pipeline? Like, are you FN out of your mind? Right? That's, I mean,
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that's the reaction of the normal, you know, the normal Albertan. And of course, what happened was that
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Polyev left her no room politically, other than to do that. And then when she does it,
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so she's now, you know, literally has her butt hanging out in the wind, then Polyev comes out
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and says, Oh, and by the way, the only person in Canada that can approve a pipeline is Mark Carney.
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So everybody just needs to ignore any provincial premier who has anything to say about pipelines.
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And I mean, so again, like, you know, she came out with this, her pipeline proponent gambit,
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and then Polyev stepped all over her. There's going to be a little bit of pushback here. We
00:24:23.040
already have the premier to the west. Sorry to interrupt there. I wanted to show you this clip
00:24:28.320
because it's interesting to me, Danielle almost sounds like she's giving a pitch for separation
00:24:35.520
and independence in this clip without exactly doing so. Obviously, there's going to be a little bit of
00:24:40.000
pushback here. We already have the premier to the west of us calling this not realistic, essentially a
00:24:44.960
distraction. So how do you plan to deal with some of the opponents to this project, whether it's
00:24:50.480
the premier next door, whether it's some of these indigenous groups, whether it's just activists who
00:24:54.960
don't want a pipeline? So I will continue, as I said, to work to build the coalition of partners who are
00:25:01.760
going to be on board with this. But this is a Canada project. And this is a test of whether Canada
00:25:07.920
works as a country. Because if we can't build with the collaboration of the federal government
00:25:13.840
and between provinces, if it's everybody gets to get their products going to market except Alberta,
00:25:18.880
that's not a country. A country is one where we support each other.
00:25:23.920
Yeah, well, what do you say? Well, she's playing both sides against the middle,
00:25:28.960
right? I mean, she's embarrassed, right? And she's rightly embarrassed, right?
00:25:33.360
You know, and this is what she's been doing. And then on top of it, I mean, she's basically now,
00:25:39.520
you know, she's trying to reset the clock, because her six months is up coming up, you know, at the end
00:25:44.800
of October. So, you know, she's been, you know, privately signaling to everybody that there's going to
00:25:49.840
be some and not so privately, maybe now, but that there's going to be some big announcement before
00:25:55.680
Grey Cup, that's going to be a complete game changer, right? And so maybe she thinks that by putting this
00:26:01.120
pipeline, you know, you know, like, on, you know, on, you know, like, begging, you know,
00:26:06.080
for a pipeline, by being project proponent, that Mark Carney might actually, oh, my goodness,
00:26:13.120
condescend to put her pipeline proponent project on the list on the next list of federal major
00:26:22.480
projects, right? Potential federal projects, five or 10 years from now, right? So that's what's going on.
00:26:29.120
And so, and again, from our perspective is, first of all, Danielle, so what that you're applying for
00:26:33.440
a pipeline, you know, as a pipeline proponent, it's embarrassing that the Premier of Alberta
00:26:38.400
and the Government of Canada have created economic conditions and regulatory conditions
00:26:43.520
that are so abysmal that nobody with capital wants to put this project forward on their own,
00:26:49.680
and the government has to do that. I mean, that indicates how broken Canada is,
00:26:54.320
that we can only get projects like this bill, if, you know, some, you know, a five year planning
00:27:00.800
office in the government comes out with its five year plan and puts the project on the list,
00:27:05.920
and then industry itself won't even build it, you know, the government has to come forward as a,
00:27:10.640
you know, as the proponent to build the project. To me, it sounds a lot like Mussolini's Italy's
00:27:15.840
challenge Russia, you know, major projects get built on a five year plan with the government,
00:27:22.320
you know, being the ones leading the projects, etc, etc. So I think it's embarrassing that,
00:27:27.440
you know, that she's tacitly admitting that she's, she's standing for or accepting,
00:27:33.520
you know, an economic condition or a country that is so broken, that only, you know, only the government,
00:27:41.280
you know, can make these kinds of projects happen, you know, is point one. And then, you know, point
00:27:46.480
two, you know, is that, you know, she's making it absolutely clear that, you know, Canada's not
00:27:53.360
working, but she hasn't, you know, you know, to say, like, she said, six months ago, oh, well,
00:27:59.040
unless I get my nine bad laws struck down, right, you know, this is going to create a national unity
00:28:06.240
crisis, right? So she gave them six months, we're now at the date for the national unity crisis.
00:28:11.760
And now she's literally, you know, scrambling to try to create herself another six months of breathing
00:28:16.960
room, where she can run around the province in her red blazer and her white shirt dressed up like a
00:28:22.000
Canadian flag saying that she's on Team Canada. You know, so I mean, none of us are impressed. I mean,
00:28:27.200
it's, you know, there's a lot of people, you know, there's a lot of Daniel Smith apologists in Alberta,
00:28:31.840
you know, that are saying that, you know, that, oh, yeah, you know, this is all, you know,
00:28:38.800
this is all, you know, just a big mind game on her part. And she's trying to teach Albertans that
00:28:44.160
Canada doesn't work. And she's trying to bring along the soft middle to separation, because
00:28:49.760
she's just proving to everybody once and for all that there's no fixing Canada, you know, you know,
00:28:56.400
you know, I'm sure she's doing that. But I don't think she's doing it on purpose. Right? I, you know,
00:29:01.680
I honestly, you know, everybody thinks she's playing chess. I don't even know that she's
00:29:05.040
playing checkers that well. Well, it's certainly she's walking a, a high wire tightrope right now.
00:29:13.600
And it's, it's extremely, I think, exacting upon her. But for me, I don't think that's the analogy
00:29:22.160
anymore, David, I think she's floundering around in the net underneath the underneath
00:29:25.920
That might be a little rough. But no, but it's true, right? I mean, it's, you know, like,
00:29:33.360
you know, like, she gave him six months to fix things. Well, have we seen anything get fixed?
00:29:37.600
No. And, you know, on, you know, literally on the eve of the six month deadline, they voted
00:29:42.480
unanimously in Parliament to extend the carbon cap and emission cap on Alberta and the production cap
00:29:48.080
on Alberta. So, you know, how is how, how has she accomplished anything in six months, other than,
00:29:55.520
you know, show Albertans that Canada is well and truly, you know, well and truly doesn't want
00:30:00.880
Alberta as part of the country? Well, she, when she was at these town hall meetings, and I think that
00:30:06.880
at least showed, you know, how she takes the situation very seriously. And she's, she's accounting
00:30:11.920
for that. But she talked about somehow recouping equalization payments at one at one particular
00:30:17.520
meeting. And I, I covered that as a story one morning. And I thought, you know, I don't know if this
00:30:23.680
is going to work, the way you're outlining it. But for me, the best argument that you have
00:30:30.640
in advocating for Alberta independence is that equalization ain't ever going to change in this
00:30:36.640
country, because peer poly and the Conservative Party candidate is committed to it. And well,
00:30:42.080
that's why, you know, that's why we put together this document called the value of freedom, where
00:30:46.640
we show that Alberta currently in CPP UI and tax revenue, send $70 billion plus a year to Ottawa,
00:30:55.120
and we get less than $20 billion a year back, an independent Alberta, you know, free from, you
00:31:01.200
know, Canada, and so called equalization, would have a 30 to $50 billion a year fiscal capacity surplus,
00:31:09.040
after funding our own our armed forces, tripling the spend on Indigenous people in Alberta, you know,
00:31:15.040
paying for our own immigration and deportation program, you know, paying for our own border security
00:31:20.560
and border patrol, you know, etc, etc. Like, the numbers just do not add up for Alberta to stay in
00:31:27.680
Canada. And I've said more than once, Mitch Sylvester actually personally hand delivered
00:31:32.960
a copy of this document to Danielle at a meeting that they had. And, you know, we've been telling,
00:31:38.400
and we've been hand delivering them to MLAs and, you know, and others in the government. And we're
00:31:43.840
telling them, unless you enact that document, and unless you support Alberta independence,
00:31:48.800
you know, you are violating your fiduciary obligation to the citizens of Alberta,
00:31:54.000
you know, you're mismanaging this province, you're mismanaging our finances. And, you know,
00:31:58.560
you know, who elected you to continue to preside over sending $70 billion a year to Ottawa,
00:32:05.360
when we only get $50 billion a year, we only get $20 billion a year back in questionably,
00:32:11.120
you know, questionable quality services, and a bunch of, you know, transfers that have all these
00:32:16.160
strings attached, you know, to them, like, you know, Canada Health Act transfers, you know,
00:32:21.920
where they tell Alberta that we can't drastically reform our healthcare system by bringing in private
00:32:27.280
options, so the people that have money can actually get healthcare in Alberta, instead of having to go
00:32:31.520
spend millions of dollars at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and so on, right? You know, I mean,
00:32:37.600
those are the types of things Albertans want, but we can't do it because of the Alberta, or because of
00:32:41.520
the Canada Health Act, and they keep threatening to cut, then threatening to cut off our health
00:32:46.000
transfers if we do. You know, we want Ottawa completely out of Alberta, and now the next
00:32:51.600
thing is, and this is, you know, I guess this is kind of news, but, you know, Mitch Sylvester and
00:32:57.120
others that are affiliated with the independence movement are organizing a massive rally in Edmonton
00:33:03.840
at the legislature on the 25th of October, because of the Carney's planned ongoing gun grab, right?
00:33:13.360
I mean, you know, and again, we, you know, we heard, and I can't even pronounce his name,
00:33:17.680
you know, or even remember his name, but, you know, the-
00:33:21.600
Yeah, the, you know, Minister Chipmunk, you know, who, you know, doesn't even know, you know,
00:33:28.640
what a PAL or an RPAL is, you know, telling on tape, telling one of his constituents that this
00:33:34.560
whole program, you know, is simply in place to appease voters in Quebec, and to make sure
00:33:39.920
that Liberals keep getting elected in Montreal, right? So, you know, basically Albertans are
00:33:46.080
going to, you know, lose or become criminals if they don't turn in, you know, legally owned firearms
00:33:52.240
that have never been ever once used in the commission of a criminal offense in Canada. Like, you know,
00:33:58.640
you know, certain people have like 28 pound target rifles that have been criminalized,
00:34:04.320
right, or prohibited, you know, that they've been shooting legally on their farms and ranches,
00:34:08.240
or, you know, you know, for, you know, for decades, that have now just a stroke of a pen, because,
00:34:13.920
you know, Justin Trudeau got a memo from his handlers in the Ministry of State Security in
00:34:18.240
Communist China, you know, telling him the Chinese would be a lot more comfortable if Canadians didn't
00:34:24.240
have, you know, rifles that were capable of taking out an engine block on a Chinese BMP
00:34:30.640
in their possession when the Chinese rolled into, you know, Canada, you know, all of a sudden, these
00:34:35.520
firearms end up on a list, or alternatively, you know, 22 caliber Gopher rifles, you know,
00:34:41.840
that, you know, have been listed simply because they look scary, right? You know, I mean, on and on
00:34:48.640
and on. And then Trudeau's benighted plan was to box all of these things up into, into containers
00:34:54.400
and ship them to Ukraine, you know, which is ludicrous. I mean, you're ex-military, right? So,
00:34:59.360
you know, think about, you know, like, the utility of container loads of mixed-matched firearms that
00:35:06.880
don't have standardized ammunition, standardized magazines, maintenance manuals, you know, whatever,
00:35:13.120
whatever, I mean, could you imagine a Russian Spetsnaz unit trembling at the sight of a bunch
00:35:18.400
of 65-year-old conscripts holding, you know, confiscated Canadian Gopher rifles?
00:35:23.920
No, it's, you know, I mean, it's ludicrous, right? And this is how policy has been made in Canada,
00:35:31.280
and why Albertans are so fed up. We see this, it's like the ostrich farm thing, it's a private property
00:35:36.800
issue. These firearms are property of people in Alberta that have been using this property legally
00:35:44.080
and lawfully for decades. We're not a problem, but all of a sudden somebody in Ottawa decides that our
00:35:50.080
property offends a bureaucrat, so all of a sudden we're told that unless our property, you know,
00:35:56.320
is turned over for destruction by the Canadian government, right, that we're going to be
00:36:01.360
criminalized. It's, you know, it's basically the ostrich issue writ large from coast to coast to
00:36:06.480
coast in Canada. Yeah, well, I wanted to, I wanted to touch on that briefly here, because I don't
00:36:10.080
think the federal government has ever looked more ravenous than it does right now. With the gun grab,
00:36:15.760
they've got three censorship bills in front of parliament, possibly a fourth, actually. You can
00:36:22.560
actually say there's four censorship bills to restrict free speech, censor anybody on the internet.
00:36:28.720
We've got grand surveillance programs, not a word, by the way, from Pierre Polyev about any of these
00:36:34.560
censorship bills. Oh, of course not. And the ostriches. I didn't know the CFIA was a criminal
00:36:40.800
organization that acted above the law, that could act with impunity from animal cruelty legislation.
00:36:47.120
It can do basically whatever the hell it wants, and without anybody questioning this in the government.
00:36:54.080
And of course, Polyev says, well, it's incompetent, but he manages to answer the question about the
00:36:58.640
ostriches without mentioning ostrich and the answer. And it's extremely unnerving to listen
00:37:04.960
to him talk about this issue, because he doesn't want to say, this is gross negligence. This is
00:37:09.920
outrageous overreach of government. He just wants to say, well, just another example of liberal
00:37:14.560
incompetence. And farmers are confused. No, farmers are not confused. Farmers know what the hell this
00:37:20.640
government wants. They want their property, they want their land, they want their animals, and they want
00:37:26.000
their livelihood. That's what this liberal government wants. And is Canada working for Katie Pasadenae
00:37:32.480
and the folks who own that farm? Absolutely not. Canada's not working. And I don't know what their
00:37:39.760
politics are in terms of Alberta independence, British Columbia independence. I know they're very angry
00:37:46.560
with this liberal government and with Mark Carney doing nothing. And with Pierre Polyev giving half-assed
00:37:51.440
responses like that. So has there ever been a better time? Pierre Polyev is no friend of freedom. He's no
00:37:58.720
friend of Alberta. I mean, and I was saying that when he was running, you know, when he was running in
00:38:05.360
Battle River Crowfoot. I mean, he was actually he ran in the federal election on the basis that he would
00:38:10.880
maintain transfer payments for Quebec because he wanted to get elected in Quebec. He also said that he was
00:38:16.480
going to do nothing to touch supply management. Apparently now dairy's on the table in the trade
00:38:22.320
talks with Mark Carney, so elbows down, right? You know, as they had been, they had to be. I mean,
00:38:28.160
we're not, you know, but again, to what degree has our national economy been jeopardized, right, by,
00:38:34.480
you know, by Mark Carney perpetuating this foolish trade war? I mean, you know, they should have gotten
00:38:39.760
rid of supply management on day one, the minute Carney was elected. It's the biggest, one of the biggest trade
00:38:45.680
irritants for the Trump administration. You know, it's almost like number one on their hit list.
00:38:51.760
And it's such a small portion of our economy, you know, who cares other than for the, you know,
00:38:57.440
to the extent that they don't want to give up votes in Quebec. But we're going to, we're going to destroy
00:39:02.000
the national economy because, you know, there's certain there's, you know, there's, you know,
00:39:07.760
basically a dairy cartel in Quebec that has been making billions off of this. And keep in mind,
00:39:13.440
when we talk about, you know, the dairy cartel, if it wasn't for supply management,
00:39:18.320
everything that they're doing, you know, would offend the Competition Act and would be illegal.
00:39:22.640
I mean, it's like the, you know, it's what they do with milk and dairy in this province is like
00:39:27.200
what the Weston's were doing with bread on steroids, right? You know, I know it's not a measly 75 cents a
00:39:33.120
loaf or 25 cents a loaf or whatever it is. This is, they literally have jacked up the price of milk and
00:39:38.880
cheese and dairy products and eggs and pork and whatever in this province by four in this country
00:39:44.480
by 400%. So think about that, right? Every working poor family, which is now almost everybody in Canada,
00:39:53.120
is paying 400% more for milk, dairy and, you know, milk and dairy than they should be. Every poor
00:39:58.800
Indigenous family in this province in this country is paying 400% more for milk and dairy than they should
00:40:04.240
be. You know, every single mom in this country, you know, is being, you know, is being, you know,
00:40:10.240
is being preyed on by these people. And our government just maintains it because it's important to
00:40:15.680
maintain votes in Quebec. You know, Canada is governed, and I've been saying this for years,
00:40:20.320
by one of the most corrupt governments and systems of government in the world. I mean, I think you'd have
00:40:25.760
to go back to the old Soviet Union to see how badly Canada is now being, has now being operated. I mean,
00:40:32.960
Canada used to work, you know, on a system, you know, where, and again, the only real checks and
00:40:38.400
balances in our system under the Canadian constitution, you know, was the principle of
00:40:42.240
responsible government and, you know, quaint 19th century notions of honour, right? So this is why the
00:40:49.440
Prime Minister is right honourable and ministers are honourable, right? So if a minister gets caught
00:40:55.040
trying to fix a, you know, trying to fix a parking ticket for one of his, you know, one of his donors or
00:41:00.400
whatever it is, you know, that's, that's something that's dishonourable, and they're expected to
00:41:04.560
resign. I mean, back in the 70s, ministers would be forced to resign, you know, if they were found
00:41:09.680
doing the things that our public safety minister did recently, you know, like, you know, by offering
00:41:15.680
to pay for his, you know, oh, well, everybody else can go screw themselves. But you know, with your guns,
00:41:20.640
just tell me how much money you're going to be cheated, you know, when you turn your guns in,
00:41:25.040
and I'll personally make up the difference out of my campaign funds, I'm sure it wouldn't be out of
00:41:28.880
the minister's personal pocket, so that you'll be okay, screw everybody else, right? I mean, you know,
00:41:34.560
if that had been Bryce Mackesy or anybody in the 70s, you know, that minister would have been expected to
00:41:40.480
resign, because that is not honourable behaviour, right? But all those quaint notions, obviously, of
00:41:47.920
honour and, you know, you know, and right honourable behaviour, went out the window during the
00:41:53.120
Trudeau regime, I mean, there's been a slow erosion over time. But you know, the SNC-Lavalin scandal,
00:41:58.480
you know, where you've got SNC funneling money, you know, into the government, and then it turns out
00:42:03.520
that SNC is a company whose corporate practices include, you know, hiring prostitutes to secure
00:42:09.280
government contracts and whatever else, right? You know, etc, etc. And then scandal after scandal,
00:42:15.200
after scandal, after scandal, you know, getting Trudeau would resign? Of course not, because the word
00:42:20.000
right honourable has completely lost any meaning. You know, like back in the day, and you know,
00:42:25.200
in Great Britain, you know, if, you know, if a Prime Minister had behaved in such an embarrassing
00:42:32.000
manner to Queen Victoria, you know, they would be expected to immediately tender their resignation.
00:42:37.680
You know, let's go back to the whole ad scam, you know, scandal, right, where they're funneling
00:42:42.960
hundreds of millions of dollars into, you know, into the pockets of, you know, various Quebecly
00:42:50.000
tenants to buy votes in the 95 referendum, right? You know, to this day, all of those files are sealed,
00:42:56.960
and we're not, you know, we're not allowed to know, you know, who were, you know, who in Quebec were
00:43:00.960
receiving all of the bribes, and who was paying all of the bribes. I mean, that's one of the reasons,
00:43:05.360
it was interesting, Plamondon, Monsieur Plamondon was sharing that story with us. He said that was one of
00:43:10.160
the reasons that he became a paykist, was that when he was a young lawyer working at the, you know,
00:43:15.920
the big national firm he was at, that firm was attached to the ad scam inquiry, and when he saw
00:43:21.600
the level of corruption, you know, in the federal government, and the degree to which the federal
00:43:27.360
government would just openly and blatantly corrupt and bribe its way through the politics of Quebec,
00:43:34.000
you know, at that moment, you know, Monsieur Plamondon became a committed paykist, and was committed to
00:43:39.120
getting Quebec out of Canada, just because of all of the corruption, you know, in the Canadian regime
00:43:45.840
in Ottawa. So, I mean, you know, Canada has become a kleptocracy, and now nobody turns the hair at,
00:43:51.760
you know, at Carney's 103, you know, ethics violations. I'm sure there's more than that now.
00:44:02.400
Well, you know, I mean, and I don't think anybody, I challenge anybody to name a project
00:44:08.480
that made the national major projects list that doesn't have a Brookfield tie-in, that's not going
00:44:14.640
to basically funnel money from a Canadian taxpayer, you know, into a major project through Brookfield
00:44:21.840
into Carney's offshore bank account. You know, Canada has literally become a joke. We're the most corrupt
00:44:27.280
country in the world. With an authoritarian government that just wants us to suffer, and
00:44:33.360
I think Mark Carney, Marx's Carney is the best argument you have for Alberta independence. It
00:44:38.400
remains that, and you're not getting any help from the official opposition. So all I can say,
00:44:44.480
Jeff, is that I don't think things have looked better for your cause since perhaps the
00:44:50.960
twilight years of Pierre Trudeau. And I would think if you're not a 50% support now for independence
00:44:58.880
in Alberta, I think you're going to get there within the next six months. So I know you're working
00:45:04.000
hard on this issue, and we're going to continue to watch what happens. And I think what you're doing
00:45:10.560
and what you're calling for might just be inevitable.
00:45:14.080
Well, I think it is. And there's been, I don't know if you've heard of Martin Armstrong, but
00:45:19.920
Armstrong economics. You should actually look them up and look up Armstrong economics on
00:45:25.440
Alberta independence. Armstrong has a really, really solid track record at determining political
00:45:34.240
outcomes by an analysis of economic factors. And Armstrong economics has actually predicted
00:45:41.920
that Alberta will be an independent country within two years. So, I mean, that's, I really do.
00:45:47.680
And I think everybody in Alberta has a sense now that it's inevitable. And even, you know,
00:45:51.600
Danielle Smith with her recent, you know, this is a test for Canada as a country. I mean,
00:45:56.160
the reason that she keeps playing both sides against the middle is that she's trying to be very careful
00:46:02.560
to try to hang on to the reins of power. And she's literally told people,
00:46:06.240
one not going to become a David Cameron, you know, you know, and resign if, you know,
00:46:12.160
Alberta votes itself independent. I think the real question for Danielle is to whether,
00:46:16.400
is whether or not she can continue playing both sides against the middle and hold on to her base,
00:46:21.520
because our base, her, you know, her base is just shaking their head every time she comes up with
00:46:25.600
anything now. And more and more and more people are not believing anything she says. I mean, she still has
00:46:31.600
diehard supporters and apologists in Alberta, but, you know, people are looking on more and more and
00:46:37.360
more with complete disbelief, you know, anytime, you know, and you notice she hasn't said I'm on
00:46:42.960
Team Canada, or I believe in a strong Alberta within the United Canada in the last week.
00:46:49.600
Right. I mean, that used to be her tagline slogan, you know, it was almost like, you know, I'm Jesse
00:46:56.080
Waters, and this is my world, right? You know, Danielle almost closed off everything she said
00:47:01.120
with, I believe in a strong Alberta within the United Canada. We haven't heard that from her
00:47:04.960
in the last week. So who knows? No, we haven't. Jeffrey Rath, legal counsel for the Alberta
00:47:10.080
Prosperity Project, advocate for Alberta independence. Thanks for coming on the show again. We're going to
00:47:14.960
stay in touch. And there's so much happening right now. It's hard to keep up with everything,
00:47:19.360
but we're going to keep up with the story. Thank you again, Jeff. No, thank you, David. It's always
00:47:23.280
an honor and a pleasure to come on. So thank you. And we'll see you again soon. Bye for now.
00:47:29.920
And of course, with Jeff Rath, legal counsel for the Alberta Prosperity Project, advocate for Alberta
00:47:36.400
independence. And it's very important to note that Jeff was part of the group and that went down to
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visit with Donald Trump's key cabinet members and advisors. And Donald Trump has lent his support
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to Alberta independence. So this is big, big news. National Post printed it. As far as I know,
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though, Jeff has not been interviewed by any podcasters, broadcasters or mainstream media
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since he's come back from Washington. So this is this is big news. We're proud, proud to be carrying the
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story here. Proud to be carrying it. Wanted to I never say wanted to show you something here. And if
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the producer could put this on the screen, this is a once again, a clarification of what the Supreme Court
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is up to here or what the Supreme Court has ruled in terms of the respondent being the Canadian Food
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Inspection Agency in this case. And the Supreme Court clearly states in its order that the respondent,
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CFIA, shall maintain custody of the birds that are subject to the notice to dispose and the applicant
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shall not interfere with the respondent's custody of the birds pending the decision on this motion
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and the application for leave to appeal. R is the CFIA exercising proper custody. What do you think of
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when you hear custody? Well, if you have custody of your children, if you have custody of your children,
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you're supposed to be looking after them, caring for them, feeding them, clothing them. Obviously,
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the ostriches don't need to be clothed, but they need to be fed and given water. These ostriches are
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suffering from dehydration. We don't know if they're being fed. And as I said at the top of this
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broadcast, Spirit, one of the hens, ostrich hens, died yesterday. It clearly looked like she died of
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neglect, despite the CFIA's erroneous report that this was a pre-existing condition. B.S.
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We are sick of hearing the lies from the CFIA. This is an organization that is all about terrorizing animals.
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And they're nothing but a bureaucratic death squad. That's all they are.
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Now, let's listen to Katie and the latest from Katie. As I said, I was on the phone with her
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just prior to coming on this broadcast. And I don't know how she holds up as well as she does.
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It's just constant conflict. She's had her farm occupied by hundreds of RCMP officers who remain on the scene.
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All of these CFIA executioners who are not cooperating, they literally cannot talk to the CFIA agents.
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They have to send an email to the head office in Ottawa.
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They can't check on the care and safety of their birds.
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They have no idea what's going on. I talked to Katie. I said, can you even tell me how many
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birds are still there? And she said, we can't confirm or verify that. So, you know, I'm not saying
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399 anymore or even 398 because we don't know. This is an absolute travesty.
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And not only that, the CFIA is putting poisonous material on the ground. I wonder why they've been doing that.
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Now, let's listen to Katie here. And I'll show you some expo. Shame on you, Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
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Shame on you. Hi, everyone. Katie with Universal Ostrich Farms.
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Um, so it's been brought to my knowledge. We knew yesterday we saw Spirit throwing her head back.
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Um, you know, we put the signs on today to show us a picture of our hen, right?
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They're not tubing her. She's just doing the kick of death. They're not tubing her. They haven't
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taken care of her. If, I know, just let me speak. If we, if we would have just been allowed to care for her.
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And that is usually a classic sign of an ostrich struggling and suffering and, uh, their end of
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moments. So I just got confirmed or confirmation that Spirit is dead. Um, she died and probably
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in extreme pain, dehydration and suffered. And now under the CFIA's care for about a week and this,
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this hen's dying. It looks like they're not actually administering the electrolytes and doing all the
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things they're supposed to and the farm is just torn up about it. Canadian Food Inspection Agency
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you've been caught and I want you to know you've been caught on camera and this is on you.
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See what happens when all the police drones are flying so low. Go away. The police drones are flying
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so low. They're putting our birds through fences. You want the death of that bird? Our family
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is on you. So we have video of you taking our bags of electrolytes that you were supposed to be
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administering. You were supposed to be giving her for survival and for her health to help her heal,
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to help her not suffer for her to have a chance just like we would have done. And you've been caught
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on camera twice taking that bag of electrolytes and once going not even in the vicinity of where she was
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walking behind a tree and dumping the electrolytes out.
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Did you get that? This is huge. Katie has the evidence on the CFIA deliberately getting rid of
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the electrolytes. This is beyond neglect. This is intimidation. This is intentional neglect.
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This is intentional. Now we used to say in the military when somebody really screwed up we'd say
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charge the bastard. That's exactly what should happen here. Somebody needs to be charged here.
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You are absolute criminals and you will be held accountable for animal cruelty.
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You are hiding behind police tape and badges. Fear of your accountability and fear that you will be exposed.
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This is the first time you're going to be held accountable. You've operated with excessive freedom
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and no accountability for 21 plus years under the stamping out policy and this is time. It is time
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in Canada that we see this organization fall to its knees and we repair come up. We're going to build a
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brand new incredible organization that is going to protect you. It's going to protect your animals.
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It's going to protect your rights and this organization is not going to hide. It is going to be transparent.
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It's going to be honest and it's going to be truthful and it's going
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to be something that we can all be proud of. Shame on you Canadian Food Inspection Agency. You just ripped
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one of our family members away from our family. You made her suffer.
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So Katie's talking about rebuilding this organization, just bringing it down and rebuilding
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something new. Something that actually does care for animals. That's really about inspection and not
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Right on. And that's exactly what needs to happen to this organization.
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And here, I want to, I want to go to my, to my X page here and to show you a couple things.
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I still haven't ruled out. I still haven't ruled out going out there. I don't know, but we'll see.
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But I'm hoping we have a freedom week here with good news for Chris and Tamara.
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They're being sentenced on Tuesday. I'll be there in the courtroom.
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I hope we have a political solution. When Mark Carney meets his good buddy, Donald Trump this week,
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I hope Donald Trump has a word for him. And that's leave those birds alone. That's what I'm hoping to hear.
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That's what I'm hoping to hear. And of course, this has been just, look at the Canadian Food
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Inspection Agency. X site. Safeguarding food, animals and plants in Canada. What a crock of S-H-I-T that is.
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So here it is. A rooster at Universal Ostrich Farmers was seen on video wobbling and then
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falling to the ground. Word has it that the CFIA has been spraying the field around the kill pin
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with a disinfectant called Prevail, which is not safe to be consumed by animals.
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This is what these people, this execution squad is all about.
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And as I mentioned, you know, on Tuesday, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber received their,
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they could concede, it's possible if the Crown wins this, wins the day.
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The Ontario Crown wants eight years for Chris, seven years for Tamara, eight years in jail for mischief,
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The Canadian government has spent over three years and millions of dollars prosecuting
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As they let drug dealers, rapists and other violent criminals out on bail within hours of being arrested.
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This is what an authoritarian regime looks like.
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Thanks again, Drea Humphrey for the excellent reporting out there.
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And there's Katie on the mic, you know, just, she has worked so hard on this story.
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Universal Otters Farm calls for criminal charges for whoever is responsible for the death of their hen
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It is a bankrupt, vanquished government bureaucracy.
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I am just so, I'm so fed up with what has gone on here now.
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And thank you for all of you who appreciate me being on this story.
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Because I think it's, it is literally, I think it's one of the most important stories of the year.
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Because, you know, we talked to Jeff Rath for 45 minutes in the first part of this broadcast.
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And Jeff Rath is saying, what does Canada have left for Alberta?
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What does Canada have left for Canadians right now?
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This is a, this is a government, as I said in my interview with Jeff Rath.
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It's got four, three or four censorship bills in front of Parliament right now.
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But there's nothing else they want to talk about except restricting free speech.
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And kicking people off the internet for saying things they don't like.
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Not, no, not the criminals in Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver.
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They want to take the guns away from the farmers in the prairies or in rural Ontario.
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And as our public safety minister, I'm sorry if I get his name wrong, Ananda Sangra, I think.
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If he admitted in a private conversation that the gun ban isn't going to work.
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It's unworkable, but it's only going through because of votes in Quebec, as usual.
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What a corrupt, what a revulsive government this is, revolting government this is.
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And I'm ashamed to say it's come to this because I remember a better Canada.
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Even under Liberal governments, it was a better Canada than it is right now.
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And I don't have the confidence that even a change of government is going to make the country
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that much better or that much different because things have really gone downhill.
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Keep Katie and her family and those ostriches and that farm and your thoughts and your prayers
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on this Sunday afternoon and this Sunday evening.
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And just let them know that you're on their side.
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We're going to win this fight with bureaucracy, with authoritarian government.
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The Supreme Court might come down in the next couple of days and say, hey, we're going to hear the case.
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There's been so much bad publicity for the government, they might just decide it's worth hearing this case.
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If that doesn't happen, I'm hoping and praying for a political solution.
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And that might involve Donald Trump telling Mark Carney he needs to do something about this.
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It's taken pressure from the United States government to potentially end this catastrophe.
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Because our own government, our own politicians, in the aggregate, there have been some major exceptions,
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like Scott Anderson, the member of parliament for the area that includes Edgewood, B.C., where Universal Ostrich Farms is located.
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He's done a great job of liaising with the farm and supporting the cause.
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Not so much from Pierre Paulio, who has been a little bit less than clear.
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Yes, the liberal government's been incompetent.
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We need to say that animals must be at least tested before anything else happens.
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Thank you for your patience in this broadcast today.
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And Tuesday, we'll be in court and we'll bring you the results as soon as we know them.