The Critical Compass Podcast - March 01, 2026


Holmes Sisters： Alberta Needs to SAVE ITSELF Before it Can Care About Canada


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Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

166.15053

Word Count

1,538

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1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 my point is is that a lot of the opposition that we've been seeing to the alberta independence
00:00:07.660 movement stems from not just a lack of education on the or lack of knowledge or study on the
00:00:14.420 particulars you know like about the the economic aspect and the resource aspect and things like
00:00:19.060 this but it comes from an emotional place where they people are um nostalgic for a for a canada
00:00:25.860 that doesn't really exist anymore and may not have ever existed how they're portraying it
00:00:30.760 when you are talking to your friends specifically in the younger demographic where are you pointing
00:00:37.740 them to sort of bypass that maybe that initial emotional response and kind of get down to the
00:00:44.160 core of the of the logic and the rationale behind it that's actually really funny because in order
00:00:52.220 what is the line macy you always say i mean nobody cares about your facts until they know how much
00:00:59.060 you care and so no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care yeah yeah and so
00:01:04.940 which is why again me and macy our whole family we don't like the left versus right political
00:01:12.200 dichotomy because also knowing the brain everybody has a brain everybody has a left hemisphere and the
00:01:18.840 left hemisphere likes to come to grandiose conclusions with small amounts of information
00:01:23.840 and people do this on both sides there's a reason there's extremes and then there's a bell curve in
00:01:28.600 between and so when it comes to the conservatives they like to claim oh we're so factual and we don't
00:01:34.940 care about feelings you know facts don't care about your feelings and it's such a catchy slogan
00:01:38.800 and you know we've had it on cups but when you actually watch yourself interact with these people
00:01:45.300 when when a protester is in front of you you don't you don't hit them over the head with the
00:01:51.540 independence bible you don't do that you ask them why are you why are you here and what are you worried
00:01:56.900 about and you you wear your heart on your sleeve and you treat them like a normal human being until
00:02:01.700 they show you that they're not treating you like a normal human being then you know all bets are off
00:02:06.320 but till that point you treat everybody with good faith and so the people that are looking at
00:02:13.060 canada with a nostalgia and we we did an interview with a young gentleman from after our
00:02:19.780 the last ucp agm and he's not for independence uh he said you know i i agree with daniel smith and
00:02:27.420 in a united canada alberta within united canada yeah um still absolutely respectful even though
00:02:36.060 quite an opinionated as most young people are we're very opinionated we think we have the answers to
00:02:41.400 everything but still very respectful and that feeling of wanting to stay a united canada and
00:02:48.680 wanting to be a charitable neighbor and care the welfare state you know because economics are so hard
00:02:55.980 no the canada needs our wealth more now than ever because things are so terrible economically and so
00:03:04.340 the answer isn't to talk about i mean i find anyway if i were to tell them and i haven't thus far
00:03:11.620 oh this is how poorly and how victimized alberta is you have to understand we are victimized more than
00:03:17.720 the rest of canada i don't think that's a good approach thus far the poor me poor me i mean
00:03:23.800 leaving canada doesn't mean we hate canada you know it doesn't make us traitors it just means that
00:03:28.740 we want to renegotiate the deal put ourselves in a better position to be more charitable in the
00:03:34.300 future and that's something that people don't consider it's like did you what if we just want
00:03:38.220 to be able to help people better i mean that's why i started doing any listen who what what 18 year
00:03:46.060 old listens to podcasts about canadian history and the railroads and like it's not something i was
00:03:52.760 interested in but i went i want to be able to help that one that's funny you're an anomaly i did it
00:04:01.900 because i wanted to help my family and i thought and then my friends because some of my friends had
00:04:06.820 questions and i thought how do i become a smarter person and just a more skilled person that's why i
00:04:13.320 lift weights it's not because i had this picture about madison holmes being this specimen i thought oh my
00:04:19.680 gosh my mom might have a hard time lifting this box or we're cleaning and we have to move some sort
00:04:25.280 of furniture and i'm like i'm this weak woman and i can't do that and my mom's back is gonna go
00:04:30.820 sooner than i want it to so it's like okay let's lift some weights and same with doing research
00:04:36.240 lifting some mental weights same with alberta independence in my brain we're just trying to
00:04:40.900 put ourselves in a better position to do the things it is that we want to do and that can include
00:04:45.320 helping canada but right now we're not really helping canada as the constitution is as the
00:04:51.040 equalization payments are they're not actually helping but we could put ourselves in a better
00:04:56.420 position to help ourselves and then that's the rest of canada that's so that's not necessarily
00:05:02.340 fighting feelings with facts it's finding somewhere in the middle just a like tiny little point to hit
00:05:10.600 her point home it's like a cute little reiteration exactly what she just said but it's like if you're
00:05:16.000 in your own household you all have the same name you share the last name you have the same blood
00:05:20.980 but if you feel like you don't have a say like you as a young person perhaps can't talk to your parents
00:05:27.200 or the parents feel like they can't get through to their children right then there is a huge discrepancy
00:05:32.420 on how that family dynamics going to play out that's true and so it's kind of the same thing is like
00:05:37.320 i i don't think that any albertan leaving canada would feel like the canadians like they may call
00:05:43.720 themselves that but the human beings that we have been thus calling ourselves as canadian with those
00:05:49.720 human beings we do not have any sense of regard that you are not our brethren still that you are
00:05:55.140 not our family it's just as many was alluding to and in the analogies is we don't feel like we have
00:06:01.780 any sort of voice and quite we literally don't as we've seen with the number of seats that we have
00:06:08.640 and the representation in the senate and the house of commons we just don't and so we feel like there
00:06:13.540 is a discrepancy in the family unit and so if we can kind of like take the reins a bit ourselves and
00:06:20.560 feel like we have that individualization which i think any person would understand and respect is this
00:06:25.840 is a matter of trying to determine our individualization again then we can be a bit
00:06:31.380 as maddie said a good neighbors act we can start making those decisions of like okay i can breathe
00:06:37.460 now so what do you need you know what i mean i'm not suffocating anymore right so there's literal
00:06:44.660 statistics even like environmental stewardship that only goes up when your overall prosperity as an
00:06:51.220 individual in a household goes up so i mean we need to economically and our energy and our production
00:06:56.380 needs to go up before we can think about being more charitable and more hospitable towards the
00:07:02.160 environment let alone the rest of our neighbors right now people might call us so that you're the
00:07:05.920 big bad bully and you're trying to pull it's like well maybe we'd be less of a bully if we could like
00:07:11.060 macy said breathe and right now we can't so just give us a minute to recuperate and then maybe we can
00:07:16.640 come back around well you can dispel some of these uh claims pretty quick with so the claims of
00:07:23.920 albertans being victims and that's a little bit different than saying like oh poor us we need this
00:07:32.100 from you give us give us give us like that's a completely different scenario than us saying
00:07:37.640 we want to live our lives we want to thrive we want to work we want to be able to chart our own
00:07:43.300 destinies and we want to not be restricted in that process so can you let us do our own thing
00:07:50.380 so we can thrive and contribute to the world that's a different mindset that's not that's not a victim
00:07:57.280 mindset and what you're describing with with your family and your yourselves of well you're keeping
00:08:05.080 yourselves physically and mentally healthy you're seeking new information you're growing and i that's
00:08:13.280 a contrast to a lot of people who have come to a lot of their ideas through like osmosis where
00:08:19.340 they were just like absorbed from the people around them they never actually critically examined
00:08:25.180 any of their core pillars and not everybody wants to
00:08:31.040 so
00:08:41.380 so
00:08:45.420 Thank you.