The Critical Compass Podcast - February 02, 2026


Alberta Separatists： You Are NOT Traitors!

Mentioned
Nicholas Klein Gandhi
＂I Fear Alberta Will Be Sucked Into the States＂ ｜ Interview with a Forever Canada Protester Eva Chipiuk： Alberta Independence Referendum is NOT Treason #alberta #abpoli #albertaindependence

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

191.99

Word count

481

Sentence count

33


Summary

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What we ve been witnessing the last few days is what seems like a coordinated attack against the Alberta Independence Movement and its supporters. We ve seen words like traitor and treason thrown around a lot, very similar wording, similar language. We need to start pushing back against these people.

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00:00:00.000 What we've been witnessing the last few days here is what seems like a pretty coordinated attack against the Alberta independence movement and its supporters.
00:00:08.880 We've seen words like traitor and treason thrown around a lot. Very similar wording, similar language.
00:00:14.900 If you were looking for, you know, tacit permission to say this in your own life to your own family members or friends who are maybe accusing you directly or indirectly of similar things,
00:00:25.780 Let me say it first so that you can say it too. You're not a traitor. Your behavior is not treason. There is nothing that is traitorous or treasonous about collecting signatures on a public petition to hold a democratic referendum on an issue that has been explicitly ruled by the Supreme Court of Canada as being constitutional.
00:00:47.780 So all three of those criterion make it so that there is no definition of treason that fits that.
00:00:55.000 So we need to start pushing back against these people.
00:00:57.020 But what we can't do is to use their same sort of adjacently violent language.
00:01:02.780 You know, because you can see this sort of language cropping up amongst lots of people who oppose our movement.
00:01:07.760 You know, talking about jailing people or kicking them out of the country or, you know, even worse sometimes.
00:01:12.380 So what's important is that we don't rise to that level of rhetoric so that they can't use that against us, because that's what they will do.
00:01:20.420 These are people that try to provoke responses, and then they use that provocation that they did to you as evidence that you were that way all along.
00:01:29.800 So there's a quote by Nicholas Klein. He was a journalist from Cincinnati in the early 1900s.
00:01:34.880 It's often misattributed to Gandhi.
00:01:37.140 It's the quote that goes, first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.
00:01:44.920 And so we're sort of in the second, third kind of step of that.
00:01:49.220 You know, we're being made fun of, obviously.
00:01:51.500 But the attacks might start to come.
00:01:53.520 At least the verbal attacks are coming right now.
00:01:55.900 And so, yeah, you need to be firm and you need to be strong in your conviction.
00:01:58.980 You need to know the facts.
00:02:00.080 This is not what a treasonous movement looks like.
00:02:02.880 This is not sedition.
00:02:04.120 This is not any of these terms.
00:02:05.780 We're not being violent.
00:02:06.800 we're very peaceful, we're good people. Anyone who ever comes to any of these events knows that.
00:02:11.520 These are great salt-of-the-earth people. They have just had enough of being mistreated by their
00:02:16.400 federal government and they want to start to make their own way and people are scared of that.
00:02:20.400 And so they will do anything to try and stop us and it's important that we push back firmly,
00:02:26.080 peacefully, and we don't compromise our values and sink down to theirs.