The Critical Compass Podcast - February 08, 2026


How Alberta is Systematically SUBJUGATED & EXPLOITED by Confederation ｜ Mitch Sylvestre

Understanding Alberta's History & Engaging Women to Build a Strong Independence Movement Loyalty to a Corrupt Country？ Independence is an Opportunity #albertaindependence #abpoli #alberta

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4 minutes

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140.64

Word count

688

Sentence count

71

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Misogyny

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Learn English with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau has promised a six-fold increase in the Canada Pension Plan for the elderly, but is it enough to pay for it? Is it enough?

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00:00:00.000 We desire and every Canadian desires that the great trade of the prairies shall go to enrich
00:00:07.560 our people in the East, to build up factories in the workshops of Eastern Canada and contribute
00:00:14.520 in every way towards prosperity. So how about this? We desire, every Albertan desires that
00:00:22.920 the great trade of Alberta shall go to enrich our own people, our kids, our grandkids, to
00:00:32.080 build up factories and the workshops of Alberta and contribute in every way to our prosperity.
00:00:39.520 We're in a business arrangement. This is what the people in the East think about us. Screw
00:00:49.560 the West. We'll take the rest. That has been the way it has been for 120 years. We want
00:00:54.720 to know what's going on. If you were in a business arrangement with a group of people that didn't
00:01:01.160 respect you and continue to abuse you, would you stay in that business arrangement? Confederation
00:01:09.040 is working exactly the way it's designed to work. Understand this. Western Canada has a
00:01:13.720 population of 11.7 million people. We have 24 senators. Atlantic Canada has a population
00:01:20.400 of 2.4 million and has 30 senators. But it gets worse. Alberta has a population of 4.4 million
00:01:29.040 people and we have six senators. We have twice as many people as Atlantic Canada and they have
00:01:36.960 30 senators. How could we possibly get a decision go our way? And it's no different than the other
00:01:43.600 side of the house. This is how the country's broken up. 42 seats in BC, 14 and 14 makes 28. That's 70. Add
00:01:52.000 34 Alberta seats. That doesn't even add up to what Ontario has. Supreme Court justices. Two for all of
00:02:01.200 Western Canada. Three for Ontario, three for Quebec, one for the Maritimes. And equalization payments.
00:02:09.520 Well, I'll tell you how it works. Quebec doesn't put Hydro-Quebec in their balance sheets. So Alberta
00:02:15.440 puts oil patch in their balance sheet and Quebec becomes a have-not province as a consequence of
00:02:20.160 that. And we end up paying them a whole bunch of money. And 13.3 billion dollars and it's year after
00:02:26.160 year. But here's a slide that I really want you to pay attention to. Those numbers are equalization
00:02:33.600 payments per taxpayer. Look at the number in New Brunswick, 6,500 dollars per taxpayer. In PEI,
00:02:40.880 6,100 per taxpayer. So I want you to understand something. They are buying votes with our money.
00:02:48.320 That's exactly what they're doing. We give 47 billion dollars a year to Ottawa every single year.
00:02:59.680 40,000 dollars per Alberta household. Canada pension. Let's go there. So first thing I want you to
00:03:06.640 understand is you will not lose your pension. You will remain a Canadian citizen in a free and
00:03:13.120 independent Alberta. The second thing I want you to see is who's paying the bill. Look at that big red
00:03:20.080 line at the bottom left. That's what Alberta pays. BC pays 8.9 billion. Everybody else is a net taker. 0.88
00:03:29.520 So understand this. Alberta seniors collect six billion dollars a year. Our taxpayers pay nine
00:03:36.160 billion dollars a year to the CPP. We have a three billion dollar a year overage. That three billion
00:03:42.320 dollars according to the CPP act is supposed to go into a fund for Alberta seniors. And that's since
00:03:48.880 the 60s. And that's a rule that Ontario put in because it didn't want to pay more than its share.
00:03:53.840 So what happened? We, according to the CPP act, could call back our over contribution plus interest
00:04:01.840 anytime the Premier chooses to do that. So I'm asked a question. Why hasn't she done it?
00:04:06.960 That number that Ottawa owes us today is 400 billion dollars. Now I want you to unpack that a little bit.
00:04:17.440 Just understand this. CPP is claiming to get nine and a half percent so we'll round it off 10 percent
00:04:23.680 interest. So just the interest on that money is 40 billion dollars a year plus a nine billion dollar
00:04:29.680 contribution. Our seniors collect six. We've got a 43 billion dollar net on that. We can afford to give
00:04:37.040 our seniors a six-fold increase in pay and not touch a principal.