00:00:00.000What 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.
00:00:08.880We've seen words like traitor and treason thrown around a lot. Very similar wording, similar language.
00:00:14.900If 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,
00:00:25.780Let 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.
00:00:47.780So all three of those criterion make it so that there is no definition of treason that fits that.
00:00:55.000So we need to start pushing back against these people.
00:00:57.020But what we can't do is to use their same sort of adjacently violent language.
00:01:02.780You know, because you can see this sort of language cropping up amongst lots of people who oppose our movement.
00:01:07.760You know, talking about jailing people or kicking them out of the country or, you know, even worse sometimes.
00:01:12.380So 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.
00:01:20.420These 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.
00:01:29.800So there's a quote by Nicholas Klein. He was a journalist from Cincinnati in the early 1900s.