＂I Fear Alberta Will Be Sucked Into the States＂ ｜ Interview with a Forever Canada Protester
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Summary
In this episode, we chat with Mike, a pro-independence advocate, about why he thinks Alberta should leave Canada and what he would do if it were to happen. We discuss the pros and cons of staying in Canada, as well as some of his fears of what would happen if Alberta were to become part of the United States.
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Hi guys we're here with Mike who's he's here at the the Big Four Roadhouse this
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is a Stay Free Alberta event and Mike you're wearing a Canadian flag why are
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you here I you know what I'm here just to peacefully protest I love Canada I
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want to stay you know and I want to give people the option of not not signing and
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not you know ripping Canada apart what would you say is your do you believe the
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primary reason people are here to sign is what do you think their main grievances
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are well I think a lot of people want the freedom and to be out from what they
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see the the the federal government doing and the laws that are enacting there's
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also financial component I think that they're looking at I think that's
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probably based on the conversations I've had that's what people are most
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concerned about right do you think there's any validity to their concerns
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from an economic standpoint yeah I think there are I think but I think there's a
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lot of nuance to all of the arguments and what what I have noticed most often
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is that people don't dig into the nuance yes I think that's an issue across the
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board what would your what would your primary reason for staying in Canada be I
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love Canada I want the freedom to be able to move around you know live and work in
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different places and and stay with this this country and what would you say let's just
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say that there was a successful referendum voting in favor of leaving
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Canada what would be your main fears that you would have of what that would
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result in I think the biggest fear I've got is that Alberta would be sucked into
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the states and with all that's going on there I think it's probably a really bad
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idea so I'd like to avoid that stay in Canada it's not perfect Canada has lots of
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problems with it but maybe we can figure it out does it give you any assurance
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that the organizers of the state free Alberta have explicitly said that they do not have
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an interest in becoming a 51st state hmm um whether or not the organizers uh have that
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intention um what I think what will happen is that that likely Alberta would be drawn in
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because on our own landlocked in the middle of North America it's going to be fairly difficult
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to operate in my opinion yeah that is a fear a lot of people have that even no matter what
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the intentions are that's what might happen um awesome well is there anything that you would
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leave our a lot of our viewers are pro-independence advocates is there anything
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that you would say to them that you think might get them to change their minds
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uh all that's been going on the past little while reminds me a lot of uh Czechoslovakia in 1937
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right uh and that's where my family is originally from and the the the Germans um uh were able to
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influence the the Germans in Czechoslovakia and got a fervor people excited to to to join join the Nazi
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party and very quickly uh the Germany took over and then continued so um I'd be just nervous that
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we're going to be pulled into something so that's it hey super appreciate your thoughts man thank you
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for chatting with us not everyone would so appreciate that of course thank you