In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and fellow activist, Sarah, to talk about the devastating effects of Bill C-69 and how we need to fight back against it. We talk about how we have a voice, but we don't even get to vote for the politicians who are making these decisions, so we have no choice but to fight against them.
00:00:00.000Just this year, you know, in the traveling and speaking of done, I've run into people who can tell personal stories about how devastated their family was or people they knew by the National Energy Program.
00:00:10.080In fact, I was in an event last week where the organizer told me he like he was a child at that time.
00:00:14.760He said he remembers his father weeping over the financial losses of their family due to the National Energy Program.
00:00:19.840We're not even safe under like a constitution that like guarantees us like rights over our resources, which is crazy to me.
00:00:27.100Like what's funny about the, you know, Bill C-69, whether I think it was 2023 or 2024, like the Supreme Court, like deemed it as being like unconstitutional.
00:00:38.180And so they, you know, the government sort of took it is like, OK, you know, Stephen Giebel was like, oh, we'll make amendments or whatever to it.
00:00:45.460And nothing's like come out of it. There's no timeline. There's like nothing's changed.
00:00:50.640Like the bill is still in place. It's still having like its impact.
00:00:54.440and now it's there's been like what since 2015 like 500 billion dollars of investor like investment
00:01:00.620flight from alberta like specifically which is like crazy to me these policies the ones we've
00:01:07.380been talking about from the world government they're very popular in places like toronto
00:01:10.420and montreal and ottawa and so those are the people who are electing you know the politicians
00:01:15.200who are doing this but it's not hurting them it's hurting us like it's it's pretty easy to vote for
00:01:20.220politician who's going to hurt someone else like two or three thousand kilometers away you know
00:01:24.260what i mean because you're not feeling and so like like you said we're not voting these people and
00:01:28.580it's almost like a similar to make an analogy to taxation without representation like it's not
00:01:32.720necessarily but policies being imposed on us that we don't even get to vote for we're like
00:01:37.040we vote in those elections but we're not that we have such a small voice
00:01:40.820that we don't we're not the ones who electing the people who are hurting us