The Critical Compass Podcast - Alberta Independence Rally Recap ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

00:00:00.000 yeah just to kind of fill everyone in who who may not be aware so in Edmonton on

00:00:06.360 geez what day was it was it uh was it the first weekend of May um right after the election yeah

00:00:12.280 it would have been uh the third yeah yeah uh there was a rally for Alberta independence at

00:00:18.200 the Alberta legislature and uh yeah we we went we took uh we took some photos and some uh we took

00:00:25.740 some video you guys may have seen the video we posted a couple weeks ago of uh just some

00:00:29.840 clips of the the speakers we were seeing on both sides and um yeah I don't know James what did you

00:00:35.660 think what did you like what was your what were your overall thoughts this is kind of the first

00:00:38.660 time we're like actually debriefing it so yeah it was great to get some footage and great to get some

00:00:45.040 interactions and comments uh felt it wasn't a bad turnout uh for something that wasn't planned

00:00:53.620 very far ahead ahead of time it was kind of maybe just a casual mention on social media

00:00:59.760 a few days before and dovetails from the election itself and kind of the distaste of

00:01:08.080 carny winning Alberta independence is nothing new we've had you can go back to the early 1900s

00:01:16.960 even to see some historic examples of this movement still having the same grievances that we see today

00:01:24.580 um but I I feel like this is a good peek into some of the support and some of the momentum that

00:01:33.360 is growing and we'll likely see more of these rallies but with larger and more kind of uh more momentum

00:01:41.880 each time that's what I that's what I think yeah I think so I think so so uh so this first photo is

00:01:48.280 holding a sign uh Alberta USA for 51st state our our only choice for prosperity uh this was uh I would

00:01:55.180 say probably um this would be probably a minority view uh of most of those in attendance or at least

00:02:02.840 uh uh we didn't see a whole lot of this we saw some signs one one flag one American flag yeah and

00:02:10.420 then I think I've got a photo of this uh somewhere else down the line here of uh there was a couple

00:02:15.820 holding a sign I think something like like country or 51st like first or 51st something like that so

00:02:22.880 so the the tricky thing about this is any 51st state messaging is not actually going to help

00:02:32.720 partially because of on the outside they think it's just a instant switch and now you're part of the

00:02:40.520 states and I from my understanding the United States has queer like they have clear stipulations 0.84

00:02:47.780 on what a territory needs to be before they even get into full talks about statehood right um and

00:02:57.740 so Alberta would have to go through a successful referendum with a clear question on independence

00:03:04.700 yeah that would have to be sorted out and then they would have to gauge public support for another

00:03:11.640 referendum on statehood in conjunction with conversations um so I I feel like the idea behind it is

00:03:22.060 they have freedom they have a robust constitution they they're not going down the same path as Canada

00:03:28.520 in some ways and people are very excited about that but from the outside it doesn't seem like it's

00:03:33.600 it's not helping from from the optic standpoint yeah yeah I think so I think so and actually

00:03:39.880 so I think this goes right from so our next photo here basically from one one extreme to the other

00:03:46.220 excuse me maybe not extreme but this was a this is a nice lady she smiled at us most people yelled 1.00

00:03:52.080 at us but this lady was smiling um we see uh we see a very different side this is actually

00:03:57.500 about uh uh pretty much exactly 180 degrees from from where I took the the previous photo so you

00:04:03.980 can kind of get a an idea of the the difference of uh uh color palette maybe a lot less uh a lot less

00:04:11.620 red white and blue and a lot more uh rainbow and and orange um of course a woman signed here saying

00:04:17.760 my grandkids will know I was not silent so this was a sentiment that we saw a lot of James and I I don't

00:04:24.400 know what your uh you know what your thoughts might be on this but my immediate thought I think we kind

00:04:29.540 of had the same idea anyway was that like this seems a little bit you know if you're gonna say

00:04:36.200 that the idea of Alberta independence is like uh you know such a far-flung you know long-term idea

00:04:44.000 well this seems like an even more like why are we worried about this right now when wouldn't it be in

00:04:52.080 in the indigenous groups best interest to just kind of see how it plays out and see if they can

00:04:58.060 if they're concerned about their treaties and their lands well in the first place their their treaties are

00:05:03.500 with the crown they're not even with the federal government anyway and wouldn't you know considering

00:05:08.920 their you know decades long history of of being at odds with the federal government about you know

00:05:16.560 their lack of uh you know lack of services lack of uh support lack of consideration um I just don't

00:05:25.320 really buy the like sudden surge of patriotism and I would wonder why their initial instinct wouldn't be

00:05:31.280 uh well let's just see how this plays out and let's see if we can actually renegotiate better treaties

00:05:36.040 with a uh you know a smaller nation that would be more able to directly address our exact concerns I

00:05:43.480 I don't know does that does that kind of ring true at all to you yeah like I it is an opportunity

00:05:50.020 so that's one way of looking at it but um and and part of me thought the same thing like why wouldn't

00:05:57.640 if they like why wouldn't they take this opportunity to negotiate a better deal if they have such hatred

00:06:03.240 towards Ottawa and everything that has led to them being in this position and broken promises and they

00:06:12.000 don't feel like they got a good deal but if we take a step back and we observe what the left has done

00:06:19.920 the left has co-opted the indigenous movement yeah made it part of them and with that by extension

00:06:30.840 the conservatives are a threat to the indigenous either indigenous rights or indigenous sovereignty

00:06:38.240 even if there's no solid evidence or logic behind that just by proximity and by opposition I feel like

00:06:49.000 people automatically assume that independence which is supported higher like more more of the

00:06:57.740 supporters are conservative so it leans conservative would inherently be harmful to indigenous rights

00:07:05.940 right yeah that's the line of thinking that I think many I suppose many might fall into because you see

00:07:14.940 the pride flag there we saw yeah a lot of socialist messaging yeah um and the the the the irony behind

00:07:26.100 this is you see like well what is a what is more socialist than a universal basic income or yeah and what we've seen

00:07:35.820 is like well in reservations where they're given this money they haven't even in some cases there's been

00:07:44.500 corruption that's prevented that money from being properly utilized yeah so this experiment and socialism

00:07:50.820 hasn't even yeah hasn't even played out yeah yeah well there's more of that to come um we are we are now have the

00:08:00.820 the we now have the benefit of seeing a wonderful shot of james himself taking some beautiful very steady

00:08:08.820 video on my iphone can't go wrong with a uh with a gimbal and this kind of stuff yeah that's right

00:08:15.180 yeah and then in the background here we see some alberta flags we see some uh that uh i'm not sure what it was

00:08:20.260 on that flag but uh but certainly lots of alberta flags on this uh this side of the blue bit of red

00:08:25.000 lots of blue and red yeah yeah here's uh here's another shot of the i guess you i don't know i

00:08:30.520 guess you'd call them counter protesters um i'm not sure who this individual represented on the flag

00:08:35.720 is but it's very obviously a an indigenous message on the canadian flag so some you know some display

00:08:42.140 of unity i would guess that's kind of the

00:08:44.520 that it's leaning into the thought that canada is like the indigenous is canada they are canada

00:08:54.140 sure yeah um which now symbolism and potentially trying to reclaim sure like well we don't want

00:09:03.520 to leave canada because we are canada and it's these other people that don't belong and they're

00:09:08.740 like trying to take it back in a sense yeah and actually this uh this next photo here you can see

00:09:16.240 some some very very clear messaging so uh this lady on the left she was doing uh some interviews with

00:09:22.040 uh with a couple uh news outlets that were there um i i don't actually know what the sign means

00:09:28.420 because this is sort of like what we were talking about she definitely seemed to be against the uh

00:09:31.840 the protest but this is actually what we were just talking about like yeah let's let's do a treaty

00:09:36.080 with alberta um this woman saying you are on treaty land i'm not sure what the bottom of that sign

00:09:42.440 said but just another you know indigenous message i gotta say like really nice colors here

00:09:48.420 they really popped like i i didn't have to do anything to these photos man like this is just

00:09:53.160 you got to give it to them for for just look how fun all these designs are it was uh some good

00:09:59.760 lighting nice sunny day great great colors it was yeah and and i think that's the point that's the point

00:10:07.600 of the messaging here's another one of you coming up uh getting some good shots and of that the

00:10:11.980 previous lady with uh with that that um symbolic flag there uh this this was kind of a cool shot i

00:10:18.460 thought um i guess i couldn't really pin down what this guy you know this is some interpretation

00:10:24.820 there's some interpretation here national citizens listen learn understand and and i don't know like

00:10:31.020 i don't you know mean to cast judgment or anything he kind of looked like a homeless man uh you know i

00:10:36.220 don't know could just be just be like a kind of a hippie older guy but like do you know anything

00:10:42.280 about this uh like just even this term in this context of national citizens like is that a term

00:10:47.620 people are using for this movement or i don't i don't know if it has any specific like i haven't seen

00:10:55.320 it come up in any other discussions so i don't know what that means um yeah like it's got kind of the 0.92

00:11:04.140 stripes on the shirt i i just feel like this guy has seen some shit and he's like i'm done i'm done 0.91

00:11:09.700 yeah yeah now's the time for change so that that's the sense i'm getting yeah no doubt it's a good 0.95

00:11:15.280 just whatever it is it kind of seemed like but listen learn understand that's that's a it's opening

00:11:21.800 a branch to to others i'm sure if a counter protester went up to i'm sure he'd have a great

00:11:27.000 conversation with them yeah yeah we didn't bring we didn't um really know what this would be like

00:11:34.120 but uh next time one of these happens we'll be sure to bring our our audio recording equipment

00:11:39.120 too so here's another i guess i got a lot of shots uh at this precise moment of in time of uh the

00:11:45.640 counter protesters so here's here's a couple signs um there's maybe like 30 or 40 counter

00:11:52.640 protesters to the one or two thousand people there yeah i think i think most people figured

00:11:59.420 there was between 1500 and 2000 um protesters and yeah that sounds seems about right maybe

00:12:04.660 between 30 and 50 counter protesters um uh so yeah here's we have a sign this land was given to us

00:12:11.420 to look after uh not on indigenous lands i don't know this is an indigenous word

00:12:18.260 this one is kind of funny i like the why separate just leave and i kept every time i saw it i just kept

00:12:25.020 being like yeah that's what we're trying to do they they mean move away and physically move away

00:12:31.280 um so there is this thought and this comes up in conversations well that people will say well you

00:12:38.940 alberta independence can't happen because the bands will veto it the indigenous have a veto 1.00

00:12:47.520 veto and that's not that's not a thing there's no right that's not a constitutionally there's no

00:12:57.760 mechanism for a veto on a clear majority they don't have that extra power uh then you can argue about

00:13:04.780 well what does a seated land means then there's still um arguments on the interpretation of they

00:13:12.800 thought they were sharing the land but they didn't fully understand what they're signing

00:13:16.940 right but that's also a convenient excuse if you have a bad deal you just say well i didn't

00:13:23.940 understand a deal yeah yeah it's hard to say it's yeah i don't know that's a whole episode unto itself

00:13:33.340 but thankfully a um i think what what may be the best photo i took in the whole afternoon

00:13:40.080 is coming up you know which one i'm talking about

00:13:42.600 the uh there there's two good ones but we'll see if they everything is the same thing

00:13:51.120 it's pants it's pants guy

00:13:53.560 so yeah we said there was some socialist slash marxist people there that yeah yeah we got a whole 1.00

00:14:01.780 lot of uh interesting messaging here we got some tax rich we got fuck fossil fuels 0.99

00:14:05.940 uh oh man bl blm yeah you got some blm right there yeah more blm here every child matters do you 0.97

00:14:16.320 think we are the 99 do you think he supported uh vax mandates oh certainly absolutely you would

00:14:25.340 have to imagine the like the the rage against the machine types are now raging for the machine

00:14:32.200 that's right yeah so this guy was funny uh this in a in a complete contrast then we got this guy

00:14:39.040 so this is in the um all the photos of the counter protesters they were sort of at the i guess it would

00:14:45.920 be the uh east side of the legislature and then the kind of the central central south area was was all

00:14:55.120 the all the um protesters so yeah speaker on the on the steps of the legislator that's right yeah and

00:15:03.540 you can see them right back here yeah yeah so this is kind of a kind of a neat little very very

00:15:09.440 burda style brand isn't it um okay here's that sign coming up that i was thinking about so alberta

00:15:15.100 first or 51st so that's kind of a neat sign uh yeah i mean that that seemed to be a lot of the

00:15:22.020 sentiment was was either like if if not independence then 51st state or if not 51st state then at least

00:15:34.180 independence you know it seems to be whatever the case is we just can't keep doing whatever it is

00:15:39.800 we're doing with the eastern part of the of the country i mean do you kind of get that that feeling

00:15:45.720 yeah they they need some way out from a uh abusive relationship yeah yeah and i mean i don't think

00:15:54.340 like you know when you look at we might have to do an episode on this we might have to do a deep dive on

00:16:00.260 um you were talking to me the other day of like kind of the most recent um uh global uh you know

00:16:10.560 world politics example of a um creation of new nations and uh we can look to um the czech republic

00:16:18.540 in the in the mid 90s or early mid 90s uh you know the czech republic obviously um splitting into

00:16:25.440 several but rather czech slovakia splitting into several different nations czech republic uh czechia

00:16:31.640 now uh bosnia uh croatia um montenegro i think you know lots of different nations so we we have that

00:16:41.040 as a very recent example of what happens when a when a nation you know believes that it has

00:16:45.220 irreconcilable differences with the the various uh you know people in its confederation so you know i

00:16:51.740 i i just don't i don't really feel like i've always sort of been uh you know obviously identified as a

00:16:57.720 canadian but it's it's pretty hard to argue nowadays anyway that it seems like albertans

00:17:04.240 certainly have much more in common with several uh like i can think of several u.s states that are

00:17:10.860 more similar like the type of people in the in the province of alberta are much more similar

00:17:16.440 to many different states than maybe even to most other provinces yeah it's also depends what you

00:17:24.160 what you define as canadian because for a while that was a kind of a shape-shifting definition that

00:17:34.960 didn't really it wasn't solidified and you could see that through comments like canada being a post

00:17:44.460 national state yeah and um the fact that immigrants did not need there was no pressure to assimilate they

00:17:52.080 did not need to assimilate so if those two things exist then you're like well if you're if albertans

00:18:00.340 are being shamed for wanting to leave they're saying well you're not a real canadian like first of all

00:18:05.040 what is a real canadian yeah but if you look at some of the values if we the canadian that

00:18:14.880 the canadian spirit that we maybe we like look back 50 years is living through alberta more than it is

00:18:24.640 through any urban town in like urban mega center in toronto or mississauga or ottawa even so

00:18:39.080 it feels like the independence movies is trying to preserve the canadian identity in essence

00:18:45.180 protecting that by leaving you're like well we're taking the essence of what we believe

00:18:52.820 what we're it's just manifesting in an alberta way um yeah but i i feel like there's some grieving

00:19:00.820 towards we've lost the canada that we thought we had and they don't want to be if being can being

00:19:09.220 canadian means all these other things if it means a global estate then like well why be canadian then

00:19:19.060 yeah yeah it's true i mean that's that's a that's an interesting way to put it where it's

00:19:24.020 yeah you know sometimes in order to preserve your identity you might have to

00:19:31.460 sequester it right yeah is it is the identity just the is it just the brand colors like what is

00:19:41.100 what's the underpinning of that identity like if you're flying different colors like it's not just

00:19:48.300 a facelift like what's at the what's at the core yeah yeah that's right that's right

00:19:53.420 um yeah interesting okay we got another sign here we got uh we got an f trudeau and a trudeau 2.0

00:20:01.780 that was pretty fun um i oh sorry don't know what happened there um i'm trying i was trying to zoom

00:20:09.400 in on this guy's shirt but it's uh something about when the government's boot is on your throat

00:20:13.720 something something something so yeah this guy's this guy's not messing around wearing a wearing a

00:20:20.440 uh i think a moose jaw warriors hat i think that's what that is or no maybe that's red deer rebels

00:20:26.060 i don't know anyway tough guy now this is a fun one this is an interesting play you remember this lady

00:20:32.260 all right i remember seeing but i don't know if we uh i don't know we don't think we chatted with her

00:20:39.720 do we yeah no no i don't think so but so what we have is a lady wearing a essentially a cape here of 1.00

00:20:45.160 of a flag made half alberta flag and half usa flag and actually i just noticed this guy's hat

00:20:49.860 alberta usa so there's another there's your three people the other thing to remember is uh

00:20:57.380 if you go down to the south part of alberta there are a lot of americans and canadians that

00:21:05.540 well there you have family members just 20 kilometers south of the border like there's a bit of overlap

00:21:11.740 it's not like the border happens and you just like cut off ties to the family like people 0.84

00:21:17.900 yeah that's right it it gets a little bit fuzzy there yeah for sure for sure as it would with

00:21:24.360 they maybe they may be even like dual citizens even so true yeah true uh yeah we did talk with a

00:21:31.640 with a a couple and two or three people uh who were were up from uh red deer so yeah i wouldn't i

00:21:37.620 wouldn't be surprised if people came up from from the southern uh parts of the province too even more

00:21:42.680 south this is that lady again um with the treaty alberta sign i'm not sure we we tried to figure out

00:21:49.020 what this uh radio or tv or radio station is i don't think we ever did but maybe if anyone can

00:21:54.980 recognize that logo um we um should i show the mark car anyone yeah i'll show the mark car anyone

00:22:04.700 we don't have to dwell on it this was kind of a kind of a fun sign so i don't know i don't know

00:22:09.900 about the claim but uh but uh certainly a certainly a passionate woman uh this one was i just i included 0.53

00:22:19.360 this one in because it just was funny to me because so this is a city city news uh journalist i i didn't

00:22:24.720 actually recall her like interviewing anyone that's her cameraman there um i don't really recall her

00:22:29.700 interviewing anyone you know we were there for probably around two hours or so and they were

00:22:35.540 just kind of like meandering around the outside um i don't do you recall her doing anything of note or

00:22:41.480 just kind of being there um the thing is if they did like a one minute spot uh we could have missed

00:22:48.740 that so that's true that's true they may have taken all their b-roll that they needed um because i saw

00:22:54.780 some of the overviews like they got different shots of it um like the they were pretty faithful

00:23:01.260 to the crowd sizes on some of their coverage so they didn't okay that's good they weren't

00:23:06.200 super deceptive but it was also like a couple shots to the crowd a couple things and then it was just

00:23:12.360 all about the like a lot of the counter protesters sure yeah yeah so this was um another another shot

00:23:20.940 just of a guy this was ctv i just took these ones in because these were the only two i don't know if

00:23:25.340 we saw maybe we did see um cbc but i didn't see a any signage or anything so city city news or or

00:23:33.220 whatever that was yeah city news and uh ctv there's pants again back there you recall you oh i guess he

00:23:39.600 was the guy holding the uh the gigantic pride flag he has a lot of pride he has a lot of messages he

00:23:46.260 wants to get across um this guy was uh was fun so here's a uh again i i'm not in any position to

00:23:54.500 you know make this call either way but this is it was a very white looking gentleman who was very

00:23:59.160 very active on the uh in the indigenous uh portion of the uh the debate talking about uh he was mo if

00:24:06.220 you recall james he was uh uh mostly uh yelling about how uh like daniel smith would would not be

00:24:14.640 trusted if she would uh if she would agree to separation or something like that yeah it's uh

00:24:21.840 i feel like they weren't actually

00:24:25.200 arguing about anything productive and or like it's not if they actually understood

00:24:32.620 what people were there and like the referendum process or the clarity act they would have

00:24:37.940 it would be different things they would actually be yelling about so i feel like there's a lack of

00:24:43.340 understanding coming from the side yeah that's right that's right uh we had a couple ladies here 1.00

00:24:50.700 who were uh fairly um boisterous let's say uh i think we captured one of these ladies in the 1.00

00:24:57.900 overview video that we had i think that's right she was had some very harsh things to say about the

00:25:06.540 white man indeed indeed yeah that was uh yeah that was something that was certainly something

00:25:12.800 um yeah fun people so here's another sign this was a uh this one was is an interesting because at least

00:25:19.400 it attempts to address some point so alberta separatism is uh a waste of money unrealistic

00:25:26.340 illegal and a distraction and so and you can kind of see here this little this is i i just can kind

00:25:33.900 of noticing this this like fold it up portion point points for uh a realistic page fold that's

00:25:40.000 the proportions are actually pretty good yeah the shadow is nice yeah that's good so we got ahs

00:25:44.260 scandal coal mining ucp i think that's probably gonna say corruption this is actually a a good

00:25:51.660 good thing to touch on we can always unpack it a little bit more later but um you can you can

00:25:59.040 talk about each of those individual claims but the fact that ahs and the ucp keep on coming up um i

00:26:09.620 think is a is a big thing to be aware of because on the within the independence movement there's a lot

00:26:15.700 of talk about um on a political thing political side of the movement being harmed by either an

00:26:24.200 independence party or by all these things but they don't fail there there's a failure to talk about

00:26:31.160 how the ucp and their own actions could hurt the the movement and there's no getting around it right

00:26:40.220 now that it is more right-wingers more conservatives that are kind of fronting this movement uh from all

00:26:48.060 the non like all the organizations that are not not affiliated with any government like you've got

00:26:56.100 the alberta prosperity project it's not a government organization um so they're not getting smeared with

00:27:04.600 any of these but it's not going to stop people from using the ucp's own action to discredit the movement

00:27:12.960 yeah yeah so this is where like you can't rely on the ucp to get you through all this like they

00:27:22.180 well the ucp has already claimed well daniel smith's claimed her number one job is to keep albert a part

00:27:30.340 of canada and we'll see if that messaging changes if there's a clear majority and a clear mandate maybe

00:27:38.320 she would revise that but right now she's saying that she's like it's not her job to support the

00:27:48.660 wishes of a lot of the members of the ucp yeah it's interesting that if she's i don't know maybe

00:27:57.320 there's a long game here but it seems odd to me that you would be literally like the day after the

00:28:03.300 election she's got legislation tabled to lower the the threshold for uh citizen-led initiatives and

00:28:11.940 like it it seems like you know she's i don't know i i you know if i'm giving her the benefit of the

00:28:18.220 doubt what i would what i would hope anyway is that she's playing the rhetorical game to keep the feds 1.00

00:28:25.840 off her ass while actually kind of helping usher along you know her true wishes but i don't know 0.99

00:28:34.260 she could be a she could be a filthy federalist at the end of the day who knows um okay we got two 1.00

00:28:39.800 photos left here i'm gonna i'm gonna skip to the last one and then we're gonna go back to what 0.94

00:28:43.080 actually uh what we were talking about earlier was actually the best photo of the day so this one was

00:28:47.860 just kind of a cool shot i thought this is one of the speakers um i should have got his name but

00:28:51.960 he uh very passionate speaker kind of a neat uh kind of a neat uh shot these guys are lucky there

00:28:58.860 it was a really hot sunny day uh that day and these guys were in the nice uh shadow of the ledge

00:29:02.900 there so that was a good idea to hold it at this hour but uh okay you ready for the best shot of the

00:29:08.320 whole day i'm you're gonna have to read it out loud for for the folks at home are you ready james

00:29:12.520 yep okay this is the best photo we took of the

00:29:15.340 only thing that's separating are you are cheeks your cheeks

00:29:26.620 yeah that's a highly effective counter protester he had it so close for r as well i don't know what

00:29:36.220 he was like i feel like he had the original are written really well and then crossed out tried

00:29:43.320 to turn it into a q or something i'm not sure what happened there but but thankfully he crossed

00:29:48.020 it out it's lowercase g yeah yeah and then and then he he certainly knows what a contraction is he

00:29:55.720 just didn't know how to use it properly in this case maybe the thing is maybe he wrote it without

00:30:02.060 the apostrophe and he's like oh i can't forget the apostrophe so he remembers the apostrophe there but

00:30:07.580 he forgets the apostrophe up there yeah yeah that's right only thing that's separating are

00:30:15.180 your cheeks that's i love it i'm just gonna leave this one up for the rest of our chat here i think

00:30:20.680 because that's that was my favorite sign so um yeah that one i mean it's hard to argue

00:30:28.220 if if all the signs were like that i probably would i'd have to hand it to them but not all the signs

00:30:36.340 were like that most of the signs were treaties respect it yeah the there's gonna be no shortage

00:30:46.500 of like hostility and some other um well you're gonna hear all kinds of rhetoric and demonization

00:30:55.820 so okay well hey thanks everyone for listening as always and for watching um you can find us if

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The Critical Compass Podcast - May 23, 2025

Alberta Independence Rally Recap ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

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