The Critical Compass Podcast - Independence Talk with PJ The Belt & the Freedom Calendar

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00:12:44 hello ladies and gentlemen

00:12:47 hope you're doing fantastic today

00:12:49 it's finally working

00:12:51 sorry for guys

00:12:53 we have some technical issues

00:12:55 we have to deal with

00:12:56 make sure that James is streaming

00:12:59 PJ is streaming and myself

00:13:01 are streaming as well so

00:13:03 thank you very much for tuning in

00:13:06 I hope you're doing fantastic how you guys

00:13:08 doing over there

00:13:09 pretty good it's great to be

00:13:12 on I know we keep on seeing

00:13:14 each other at different events but this is the

00:13:16 first time we've collaborated

00:13:17 on stream

00:13:18 there's a little bit of echo

00:13:21 on the stream

00:13:22 I can hear myself

00:13:24 that's probably my

00:13:28 sound on my end is very powerful

00:13:29 on my end should be better now i have um echo cancellation activated and i can still hear

00:13:38 myself for some reason uh maybe double check if one of your if you're watching one of the streams

00:13:44 you might have to mute one of them oh that is hold on that's probably why i'm 100 isolated

00:13:54 the people on the audience don't hear any echo i think should be good

00:13:58 okay

00:14:00 also I'm frozen can you see me

00:14:03 I think you're frozen

00:14:06 that's weird

00:14:07 are you on Chrome or are you on Firefox

00:14:12 because Chrome has

00:14:13 okay Chrome has this weird

00:14:15 looking at freezing webcams

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00:14:18 so

00:14:19 okay

00:14:22 sorry for that

00:14:24 that's what I meant by technical issues

00:14:27 so no echo there

00:14:29 so that's good

00:14:29 well I just want to see

00:14:31 what you guys are watching from

00:14:32 I see there's some people

00:14:33 I want to see

00:14:36 what you guys are watching from

00:14:38 I see people from

00:14:39 Northwest Montana

00:14:40 Lori Jean says

00:14:43 are you on

00:14:44 Roll Locals right now?

00:14:46 yes in fact

00:14:47 this is my first video

00:14:48 on Locals

00:14:50 so basically

00:14:52 I've subscribed to Locals

00:14:53 just about last week

00:14:56 yesterday I was doing some testing

00:14:58 on my own stream, everything's okay

00:15:00 and it looks pretty stable

00:15:02 because there are many

00:15:04 ways, because StreamYard

00:15:06 doesn't

00:15:07 actually send this stream, I have to

00:15:10 use another platform called Rumble

00:15:12 Studio to do that, which is

00:15:14 native with

00:15:15 locals, they're essentially the same

00:15:18 company, which is kind of cool

00:15:19 but

00:15:22 yeah, so locals should be fine

00:15:24 so that was very interesting to see

00:15:26 so yeah, I'm trying to be

00:15:28 on many platforms as possible

00:15:30 which is great

00:15:31 I think the other guys

00:15:34 are going to come soon

00:15:35 so let's talk to this event

00:15:37 so this is the first event of a series of

00:15:40 collaboration events called

00:15:42 the Majestic Show

00:15:43 if you are

00:15:45 oh, I think PJ is coming back

00:15:48 are you back?

00:15:49 I think I am, I still have Echo man

00:15:52 I wonder if I should close

00:15:53 my end of the stream, or will that

00:15:55 kill my page?

00:15:57 No, that should be good.

00:15:59 So I can close it?

00:16:02 Okay, so that might be what the issue is.

00:16:03 Let me close it.

00:16:05 Am I still there?

00:16:07 Yeah, you're there.

00:16:09 Okay, awesome. Alright, sorry about that,

00:16:11 everybody. My apologies.

00:16:13 You know, when we talk about technical

00:16:15 issues, this is what we're referring to.

00:16:17 I think we all

00:16:19 have our areas of expertise.

00:16:21 Mine is technical and killing

00:16:23 trolls for the people it's being charming i'm not charming at all i'm like a very dry person to talk

00:16:28 to and and by the way joseph why i know that some people are being a little put off when they say 0.94

00:16:34 oh max you're i want to say hello when you're doing your your streams but you're so dry you

00:16:39 don't say hello well because i'm running cables guys the man is a technician he's got all the

00:16:45 all the million things going on at one time and that is totally not my expertise man totally yeah

00:16:51 Yeah, absolutely.

00:16:51 Couldn't do that.

00:16:53 Absolutely.

00:16:54 So I'm just going to wait until Mr. James from Critical Compass is going to join us.

00:17:00 So what happened to play today?

00:17:01 What you got, PJ?

00:17:03 What are you going to talk about?

00:17:05 Hey, man, we got Alberta Independence.

00:17:06 There's a heck of a lot going on out here in Alberta.

00:17:09 Heck of a lot.

00:17:10 Like, you can't keep up with the news.

00:17:13 Like, I'm out at work, and I hear it at 5 a.m. when I wake up on the radio.

00:17:18 They're talking about Alberta.

00:17:19 uh lunchtime news they're talking about alberta mainstream media can't have enough about alberta

00:17:26 i mean they're talking about it in a negative light mostly uh when it comes to alberta

00:17:32 independent supporters what i like to call alberta patriots because that is what they are

00:17:36 they're patriots these are people fighting for the future of their children not unlike every

00:17:41 other patriot group before that is trying to fight for the freedom uh for future generations

00:17:48 And yeah, they're just the attention is insane. And it's not just in Alberta. It's all over. It's national, national attention. And the latest thing we have, as many of you watching know at this point, is that some unelected judge judges, unelected liberal appointed judge decided that we as Albertans don't get a say in our own future.

00:18:13 and that is there's plenty of subject matter then man there are so many wrong uh so many wrong things

00:18:20 so many things that are wrong with that decision that we can talk about it all night

00:18:24 when i was taught yesterday i have an interview with john bolton just foy john bolton i have it

00:18:31 on my show and we were discussing those and we were discussing about what the future is going to

00:18:36 be for the petition because with those respect i mean we have volunteers that were freezing

00:18:42 cold outside and I think

00:18:45 even in May we have some snow

00:18:47 outside, climate boiling

00:18:48 and

00:18:49 because of their, I mean

00:18:52 and also what happens is that this

00:18:55 court decision kind of

00:18:57 nullifies the hard work of

00:18:59 thousands of volunteers

00:19:00 dancers or canvassers, right?

00:19:03 But I believe, and this is something

00:19:05 that I was talking with John Bolton

00:19:07 is that Daniel Smith

00:19:09 right now, she's in a corner position

00:19:11 She can't say no to a referendum question. 0.99

00:19:15 She can't because otherwise that will be political suicide for her.

00:19:19 Basically, she will be essentially Jason Kenney version 2.0, in a sense.

00:19:27 That's the way I see things.

00:19:29 At the same time, she has about, I don't know what's the percentage,

00:19:33 but if you look at the percentage of people who are in favor of independence

00:19:37 within the United Conservative Party,

00:19:39 Shameless plug, get your UCP membership, by the way.

00:19:43 Do it. 1.00

00:19:44 Do it.

00:19:44 It's $10.

00:19:46 Nobody is going to – anybody can afford to pay $10 to do that.

00:19:52 I think that during the AGM here, and I think it's going to be in Calgary,

00:19:56 it's going to be a very important decision.

00:19:58 It's going to be a very decisive moment in Alberta history.

00:20:01 I can't wait.

00:20:02 So, absolutely.

00:20:03 And November comes quick.

00:20:05 It's in November, isn't it?

00:20:06 The annual general meeting, right?

00:20:09 Usually it's in November. They usually do that at either the beginning of November or the end of November, but it's in November usually.

00:20:20 Oh, yeah. Anybody who can get that $10 and get that membership.

00:20:26 I think my wife got us two memberships. It must have been sometime in this, I don't know, last year sometime.

00:20:34 I don't know if we got to renew it. She might have gotten a multi-year one, so I don't remember, but I did get one.

00:20:39 I don't I don't participate as much as you guys may think that I do.

00:20:43 I don't participate a lot in political things until now when I started talking about Alberta independence after realizing that there is just no future for true conservatives in this country anymore, particularly Alberta conservatives.

00:20:59 There just isn't a future in Canada. And so once Pierre lost, that is when I started this channel, as many of you know, and I just started talking in support for Alberta independence.

00:21:09 And it was exactly April, late April of last year when Pierre lost that. I just said, OK, it's time for Alberta to separate.

00:21:17 So get your UCP membership, get your voice heard.

00:21:22 Why is that important?

00:21:23 Well, we put pressure on those who are governing, the governing party,

00:21:28 to honor the desire of Albertans to have a referendum come October.

00:21:37 And I think it's, I was looking at the price.

00:21:41 Apparently, it's $20 for the membership.

00:21:48 Oh, I think James came back online.

00:21:50 Hello, affordable.

00:21:51 James, are you online?

00:21:54 Can you hear me?

00:21:55 I'm back.

00:21:56 There you are.

00:21:57 The man is back.

00:21:59 Everything stopped.

00:22:00 Like, zero browsers were detecting cameras.

00:22:03 I'm like, okay, restart.

00:22:04 Oh, yeah.

00:22:04 I have this problem with Google, with Opera, which is a common-based browser.

00:22:11 The camera just died, so I used Firefox instead, just FOI.

00:22:16 So, yeah, absolutely.

00:22:17 So we were talking about the membership at the UCP.

00:22:23 That's going to be one of the steps to basically continue the plan of building the independence.

00:22:32 I think that Mitch Investor, even on my show, he was very clear that we need to get involved at the UCP level, right?

00:22:38 because um i don't know if you touched on this but there's the citizen initiative act which

00:22:43 empowers people to do a petition for referendum but there's the referendum act and the government

00:22:49 can just hold a any referendum if they think that's what the people want so we have 700 000

00:22:56 people in some form or another who said let's have a referendum if you count the forever canadian

00:23:03 petition and uh the state free alberta petition so what's stopping the ucp from holding a referendum

00:23:11 right now they're they're kind of delaying this process during my at one time last year i have

00:23:18 an interview with uh the candidates who are going to uh to become you know during the leadership

00:23:26 reps at the ucp last year um i have some interviews with some people including rob smith who is the

00:23:33 current president he was re-elected as the current as the president of the united conservative party

00:23:38 and we had some discussions on alberta independence so basically at the ucp they have two versions of

00:23:45 looking at things one is what's going to happen after a successful referendum in october what's

00:23:54 going to be the position at the ucp right should they become a independence party or should they

00:24:01 honor the will of the people because

00:24:03 effectively that's their vision

00:24:05 they say the will of the people let's say

00:24:07 don't want Alberta to separate

00:24:09 right that's going to be 1.00

00:24:11 the default party status but this is

00:24:13 I can't speak on behalf of UCP

00:24:15 it's just that there are some

00:24:17 directions that UCP is most likely

00:24:19 going to do versus

00:24:21 the position of

00:24:22 versus the government's position

00:24:25 they are completely different and this

00:24:27 is something that I need to understand

00:24:29 in order to influence government you need to get involved politically how to do that you get a ucp

00:24:37 and it happens every single time there is an annual journal meeting every time there's an

00:24:45 egm at the last two or three months people get membership cards just to influence the party into

00:24:53 a direction that we probably

00:24:55 don't want so those

00:24:57 you know that's why

00:24:58 getting involved is so important

00:25:00 so I think it's 20 bucks I've heard in the comments

00:25:03 it's 20 bucks for to get the membership

00:25:05 now I thought it was 10 bucks

00:25:07 back in the day it was 10

00:25:08 but it's something that can be

00:25:11 affordable right 0.96

00:25:12 damn inflation man 0.99

00:25:14 inflation 0.99

00:25:15 if that $10 difference is like

00:25:19 oh no I guess this referendum

00:25:21 isn't important enough

00:25:22 not it's not it's not that important yeah ten dollars that's it that's where i draw the line

00:25:26 damn twenty dollars i'm not i don't care about the future no guys definitely get your um get your if

00:25:32 you can please do get your ucp membership if you're an alberta resident it's going to be 0.98

00:25:38 critical uh for you to have that um just touching on your point max you just got a member the

00:25:46 government is not the party and the party is not the government, but they're obviously

00:25:51 intertwined. They're obviously very close. Like the party is who chooses who the premier is going

00:25:59 to be if the party is the governing party. We all know what happened to Jason Kenney back in what

00:26:05 was it 2021, 2022. He wasn't listening to the membership of the party and that costed him his

00:26:12 job in government so in another thing that james mentioned that is super critical here very

00:26:19 important is the fact that there's the citizens initiative petition right there's that avenue to

00:26:26 get a referendum which is proving very difficult because we have the cars are stacked against us

00:26:31 the entire system is against alberta patriots but then there's also the referendum act premier

00:26:38 Daniel Smith can, at her discretion, her discretion only, obviously she has to consult with her

00:26:44 cabinet, but at her discretion at the end of the day, she can call a referendum. And we have over

00:26:49 700,000 people, despite what Lucas Suck is saying, that Forever Canadian wasn't trying to get a

00:26:56 referendum. His paperwork that he signed, his petition says that he wants a referendum. Just

00:27:03 with his specific question that is framed as a pro-Canada question.

00:27:08 Still, though, he was asking for a referendum.

00:27:11 So over 700,000 Albertans have asked for a referendum.

00:27:14 And more importantly, and I'm going to finish with this,

00:27:16 more importantly, Danielle's base, she knows well over 50%.

00:27:21 I believe the lowest estimate is 57% of her base supports independence.

00:27:26 So in my opinion, it will end up having to call a referendum 1.00

00:27:30 or it might end up doing her job.

00:27:32 And that's what I was saying.

00:27:34 That's what I was discussing with John Bolton last night

00:27:37 is that whether we have those judges

00:27:40 doing their funny games and everything,

00:27:43 it's not going to change the outcome

00:27:45 that the likelihood for us to have a referendum

00:27:48 on October 19 is pretty high.

00:27:51 She's cornered on both ends.

00:27:53 She's cornered by the Federalist Conservatives,

00:27:56 and she's also cornered by the Independents.

00:27:59 she's in a very tough

00:28:02 position right now and 0.94

00:28:03 that's what also a point

00:28:06 that Corey Morgan was

00:28:08 basically saying it's like hey

00:28:10 she is in a very tough position because

00:28:12 if she refuses to 0.99

00:28:14 do that then 0.98

00:28:16 something that will happen is that she will be 1.00

00:28:18 single

00:28:19 what's it say

00:28:21 she will be

00:28:24 Jason Kane 8

00:28:25 absolutely

00:28:26 oh unacceptable finish comes in my show

00:28:30 $20 super shot

00:28:31 glad to see a new show on YouTube

00:28:34 well thanks very much

00:28:35 and if you want to come let me know

00:28:37 that would be good

00:28:37 for those who didn't know

00:28:42 what the name of the show is called

00:28:43 The Majestic Show

00:28:45 it's because of the

00:28:46 I just referred to from The Majestic 12

00:28:49 so this is like

00:28:51 a secret

00:28:53 project

00:28:55 from the government to spy on UFOs and stuff.

00:28:59 I was like, that would be good to use that one.

00:29:01 So, I don't know.

00:29:02 I don't keep it that way majestic.

00:29:04 So, that was good.

00:29:05 So, yeah, that's what happens.

00:29:07 And I think that people are very close

00:29:10 to getting the referendum done.

00:29:13 But one of the things I was talking with John Bolton,

00:29:16 and I think even Derek Smith to some point,

00:29:20 is that we need to get to the cities,

00:29:22 get the message to the cities.

00:29:23 And I want to touch on that specifically.

00:29:26 What are the things that can be done to improve the messaging and getting the message out or getting the vote out in the cities?

00:29:36 You want to go, James?

00:29:37 Yeah.

00:29:39 So I think the cities are tricky because they're in a bubble, which is different than the rule bubble.

00:29:45 And I think a lot of the messaging right now has been, it's been focused more on the rule side of things.

00:29:51 And that's where the majority of the supporters and the people who signed the petition came from.

00:29:57 So the cities, they are, I think there's a lot of people, there's like still a, if you sum up everybody in Alberta, there's still a third who will never vote, a third who will, that are like somewhat on the fence, who may consider it.

00:30:15 And then there's a third that is fully convinced of independence.

00:30:21 So it's that middle third of that.

00:30:23 I think the efforts are best focused on because if somebody is a public sector worker, they're

00:30:29 an NDP supporter, they're a collectivist, they trust in our institutions, the amount

00:30:35 of effort that you would need for you're undoing a worldview and that doesn't happen very quickly.

00:30:42 So those people are that's a waste of time.

00:30:44 But it's those people who know that something's off. They know that Canada doesn't feel the same. And maybe they don't think the NDP is doing a good job in Alberta. Maybe they don't trust the UCP. Maybe they're only lukewarm about the liberals. It depends. So that's an in for conversation.

00:31:05 You could say, this is an opportunity for us to rewrite and build a new constitution that serves everybody.

00:31:13 So the opportunity factor, in addition to the economic side of things, that's maybe two ways that you could start connecting with some of these people.

00:31:25 Oh, yeah.

00:31:27 What about the people who are, if you look at the maps, I'm going to show you the map of Edmonton so people understand.

00:31:33 I just want to add a quick thing to what James said, if that's okay, Max.

00:31:37 Sure, sure, sure.

00:31:39 Absolutely.

00:31:40 The cities are going to be the most challenging part of this.

00:31:43 Rural Albertans tend to be more conservative, generally speaking.

00:31:47 And I think that's a reality in most of the world.

00:31:50 Rural people tend to be more conservative. 0.97

00:31:52 Just, I think, a virtue of the lifestyle, the way they live, their beliefs, the culture. 0.95

00:31:59 People who are in the city normally are more government employees.

00:32:03 more public sector jobs

00:32:07 more unions, more unionized

00:32:09 but that doesn't mean that there aren't

00:32:11 people. I mean, do you guys remember

00:32:12 what happened in Edmonton?

00:32:15 The lines

00:32:17 those legendary lines

00:32:18 and I think weather was like minus 10

00:32:21 minus 15 that day

00:32:22 it was pretty cold

00:32:23 and there were lines as far as the eye could see

00:32:27 Rumble Park in Edmonton

00:32:28 which I had the privilege of being there

00:32:30 and live streaming 0.73

00:32:32 and people were falling on their butts

00:32:35 because the roadways, I mean, the walkways

00:32:37 were literally icy as heck

00:32:39 and there were still thousands

00:32:42 and I mean thousands of people there.

00:32:44 I remember seeing this older lady. 0.95

00:32:46 She was walking literally with a walker, 0.97

00:32:48 with a mobility assistance

00:32:50 and she was there

00:32:52 and I remember asking her like,

00:32:54 ma'am, why are you here?

00:32:56 And she said that, oh, there you go.

00:32:59 You got, there it is.

00:33:00 The footage speaks for itself.

00:33:01 So, and this is Edmonton, which is, one could argue, the most liberal city in all of Alberta, the most leftist city in all of Alberta. But another thing that I want to say is that while we can't underestimate the fact that there is a lot of support for the Remain side in the cities, we also have to realize that the mainstream media is always going to underestimate the support for independence.

00:33:28 Heck, they underestimated support for Pierre Poliev everywhere.

00:33:33 Are they not going to underestimate support for people who are trying to break the country apart?

00:33:38 Look at the poll that the Rebel News recently commissioned.

00:33:42 I don't know if you guys are aware of that.

00:33:45 46% of First Nations support, respondents support Alberta independence.

00:33:53 I think that's the highest level poll we've ever heard of or seen.

00:33:58 And they're not reporting on that.

00:34:02 Just picked up an article from CTV News, guys.

00:34:05 I'm just going to share this for a second.

00:34:07 So if you look closely at the title, just the title,

00:34:14 Alberta separatists, or not separatists, whatever,

00:34:18 submit thousands of signatures on referendum petition.

00:34:20 So when you look at this, thousands of signatures,

00:34:23 anywhere from 2,000 to 700,000, it's not clear, right?

00:34:28 And you have to go all the way down and then you have the numbers like Elections Alberta still has converted a number of signatures, but Mitch is saying we have 300,000. It's more like 300 and 1,620 from my understanding.

00:34:42 But that's the point is that even the mainstream media right now is actively trying to deceive future voters on Alberta independence.

00:34:55 And that's a trend that's going to continue from now on and now on.

00:34:59 It's going to escalate very hard.

00:35:03 And I don't think that we need to underestimate that people who are living in the city specifically, they get all the information from Instagram media sources and left-leaning websites.

00:35:17 One of the things, I want to show you this for a second, because this is the map of Edmonton.

00:35:22 Obviously, I'm in Edmonton, so I don't hide anything against it.

00:35:26 But if you look at the map of Edmonton, presentation mode.

00:35:30 So this is Edmonton, guys.

00:35:32 You see the dawn out of Edmonton?

00:35:34 If there's any, and even at the provincial election, all the votes happen around Edmonton.

00:35:41 Like Shelwell Parks, they got a UCP MLA.

00:35:44 Beaumont, they got a Converse Conservative MLA.

00:35:47 Le Duc, they have a Conservative MLA.

00:35:49 But in the Edmonton area, it's pretty much NDP.

00:35:52 NDP, yep.

00:35:54 Yeah, that's pretty much NDP.

00:35:55 So what we need to do, I think, this is something that I was talking with Mr. Vester about this, is that we will need to change messaging for the cities.

00:36:06 Why do you think that we need to focus on the cities that might be different from rural areas?

00:36:10 so potentially even um one way you could phrase things um well there's a thought experiment that

00:36:23 i've been that i've been doing and i've been meaning to actually ask more people that if you

00:36:28 had 10 years of conservative rule at a federal level and the ndp are in power in alberta

00:36:36 would you be willing to consider independence so i'm curious if people are if some of these people

00:36:46 that are left-leaning if they're against the principle of independence in any form or if

00:36:54 if canada was dominated by conservatives would they think that the last bastion of hope would be a

00:37:02 independent NDP Alberta. So that's just a little thought experiment where Mike and I are going to

00:37:11 try to ask people that and go out on the streets. So that's one thing we're just trying to do.

00:37:18 So you can do different thought experiments or more Socratic messaging. And so one thing that

00:37:28 doesn't work with a lot of people that are entrenched is telling them what to believe

00:37:32 yep so it's best if you ask leading questions or if somebody feels like well like i i feel

00:37:40 strongly about being canadian then you ask them like well what does it mean to be canadian like

00:37:45 is it a piece of paper is it values you so you can get them thinking about the identity aspect

00:37:52 of it you can ask them about well the nature of confederation and you depending on the person

00:37:59 like different these different subsets of topics may be more or less um effective depending on

00:38:06 on who it is you'd be surprised about the amount of people that have no idea that alberta's being

00:38:14 mistreated they think that people are just complaining about the fact that alberta's

00:38:18 been mistreated and without we don't have any facts to back it up they don't know about the

00:38:22 inequality in the senate they don't know about the inequality in the uh parliamentary seats

00:38:28 they don't know about the equalization payments they don't know about the fact that the there

00:38:33 was a little thing called the national energy program during the trudeau years uh trudeau the

00:38:38 father they there are so many factors that people are not aware of and they think that it's just

00:38:44 opinion but when you reveal the facts back to kind of what james is talking about that it's not

00:38:50 easy to convince somebody but it is a lot more i think it's a lot easier to kind of let people

00:38:56 convince themselves you just give them the facts and then another thing that james mentioned earlier

00:39:01 which i wholeheartedly agree with is that there are i believe a third a third and a third i think

00:39:07 And Keith Wilson mentioned that, too.

00:39:11 There's the third that is us, Max, James, myself, every Alberta patriot out there, everybody who signed the petition, those people who supported the pendants.

00:39:22 We're that 30 percent to 35 percent that the polls keep repeatedly recognizing.

00:39:30 Then there's the third that we're never going to convince.

00:39:33 And we need to recognize that those people will never be convinced.

00:39:37 It's just not going to happen. You're not going to convince an NDPer, highly unlikely, to convince them that an independent conservative Alberta is better for them.

00:39:49 You're not going to convince a union member who benefits from the status quo that tearing everything apart and starting from zero to build anew, to build better, to build a more free and prosperous country is a good idea because they benefit from what we have.

00:40:08 And then lastly, there's that in between that middle point where those are the convinceables, people who can be convinced, people who are open, sitting on the fence.

00:40:19 You can talk to them. And at the end of the day, Max, this referendum is going to be won by those who show up.

00:40:26 I hear a lot of people saying, oh, there's five million Albertans. There's no way you're going to get two point two point five million and one.

00:40:34 We don't need 2.5 million in one.

00:40:36 If a million people show up, we need 500,000 in one.

00:40:42 And then that's 50% plus one.

00:40:44 It's whoever shows up who wins the referendum.

00:40:47 I just want to see some feedback from the people who are watching online.

00:40:50 Oh, James is disconnected.

00:40:53 He's going to put it back online.

00:40:54 Yeah.

00:40:55 But I was just looking at the comment section.

00:40:57 If you have any comments or any feedback on how to get to the cities, put us on the chat and we can discuss about it.

00:41:06 Like there are some comments that are very like, I don't like this comment I'm going to show you.

00:41:13 And it was because we need to shy away from that mentality, which is essentially I want to talk about that and actually about this thing.

00:41:20 This is a comment I want to show you, but kind of, so basically it said, it's like trying to convince a bunch of ostriches, you know, to talk about the elbows or the elbows off people.

00:41:34 I don't like that comment, but I want to ask you, but I want to tell you anyways, because I was essentially somebody who used to, who, when I moved here to Alberta, I never believed in independence. 0.91

00:41:46 I thought it was a very stupid idea, to be honest. 0.69

00:41:49 and then after starting to go to town hall meetings 0.99

00:41:52 and meeting with conservative people

00:41:54 that's how I started to

00:41:55 change my mind about

00:41:57 many aspects of things

00:41:59 so

00:42:00 what I think

00:42:03 the people need to change

00:42:05 are the federalist conservatives

00:42:07 the hardcore liberals

00:42:10 or NDPs

00:42:11 are essentially the 30%

00:42:13 that you're probably not going to be able to convince

00:42:16 anyways

00:42:16 but we can't convince

00:42:19 the people in the middle

00:42:20 and they're still clinging on the

00:42:23 idea of Canada

00:42:24 post second world war

00:42:26 post second world war

00:42:30 so that is I think the issue is

00:42:33 once they end

00:42:34 how you convince them

00:42:36 well you convince them by saying

00:42:38 hey the idea of

00:42:40 Canada that used to have

00:42:42 that we used to know

00:42:44 is the one that is not working

00:42:46 how can we do those things

00:42:48 but everything we've done

00:42:50 everything we've tried

00:42:51 is not working

00:42:52 like changing the Senate

00:42:54 insisting on the fact

00:42:56 that in order to trigger

00:42:57 a constitutional change

00:42:59 that requires 7 out of the 10 provinces

00:43:02 to agree

00:43:04 and to open the Constitution

00:43:06 then it goes to the Senate

00:43:08 then it goes to the Supreme Court

00:43:10 and yada yada yada

00:43:11 it's technically impossible

00:43:13 you have to believe

00:43:15 in unicorn fairy dust

00:43:19 in order to do that, right?

00:43:21 So the only way feasible

00:43:24 that we have to do

00:43:25 in order to regain our sovereignty

00:43:27 as a nation

00:43:28 is by leaving Canada, basically.

00:43:31 That's it.

00:43:32 That's the only way

00:43:33 because we tried everything.

00:43:35 And this is what you mentioned, PJ,

00:43:38 is that, oh, James came back.

00:43:39 I think he...

00:43:41 Hello.

00:43:41 the uh the streamer doesn't like me today the oh that's we're gonna talk about about other

00:43:50 platforms as well which is gonna cool so yeah we're talking about this the um the in bad the

00:43:57 ignorance from people like the film who believe don't necessarily believe in independence i i

00:44:03 don't i don't i don't i don't like to treat the other people uh who are not in favor of independence 0.97

00:44:10 that's stupid it's not my kind of people i often say that they're just all are ill-informed and 0.98

00:44:17 when the when you outline the facts and the facts are visible and understandable um what about the 1.00

00:44:25 immigrant community in the cities what do you have any strategies or any thoughts about the

00:44:31 immigrant community here in the cities and well um i had two two things to touch on is like um

00:44:40 one so the oh i i think i'm frozen again oh no yeah it's happening again hear me

00:44:50 yeah i can hear you trying to use uh next time trying to use firefox because it always crashes

00:44:56 Firefox. I've tried every single browser

00:44:58 today. I am going around the world

00:45:00 in different...

00:45:03 I'm getting... I am

00:45:04 trying to increase the diversity

00:45:06 of browsers that I'm using.

00:45:08 And I've done them all today. 0.82

00:45:10 Diversity, Doc, we're strange.

00:45:12 We got Chrome, we got Edge,

00:45:14 we got Firefox, we got all those

00:45:16 things. Dreamyard doesn't like him today.

00:45:18 Why does it freeze on

00:45:20 the most awkward face?

00:45:24 He's blowing a kiss.

00:45:26 let's change that um i'll i'll leave you with one thought and then i'll try to restart again

00:45:33 um i know so the one thought i had is that uh a lot of people in the cities they are

00:45:40 stressed with their lives they are overwhelmed they barely have enough time for all the things

00:45:45 that they want to do so they're not thinking about politics so they kind of export a lot of

00:45:49 their thinking to somebody else and i think they just casually interact with politics more

00:45:55 just through whatever random posts show up on social media and when it comes to canada they're

00:46:01 nostalgic for a canada that doesn't really exist anymore yeah for the people who have immigrated

00:46:08 they don't have that same nostalgia because they're they're new let it be new within a couple

00:46:14 years within five years within 10 years their uh perspective hasn't they have a different

00:46:21 perspective because they haven't seen the changes in the same way but i think some of them might be

00:46:28 willing to realize that there is a limit to immigration there's a limit to how much we can

00:46:35 just print money and pay for these services without actually letting things catch up uh so

00:46:42 it depends who you're talking to but i think most people can agree that you can't just print your

00:46:49 you can't print your way out of this problem

00:46:52 by printing money

00:46:52 oh yeah

00:46:55 the economy

00:46:57 sorry go ahead

00:46:59 I'm looking at the comment section

00:47:01 this is very interesting

00:47:03 and I'm going to pull the comment because

00:47:05 this is very interesting

00:47:07 and this is something I hear all the time

00:47:10 from the immigrant community

00:47:11 I want to see

00:47:12 I think I lost the comment

00:47:16 here

00:47:16 it was going so fast for a while it was like crazy crazy crazy but basically saying that

00:47:25 basically saying that the people who came here to canada don't necessarily adhere to the idea of

00:47:34 of alberta necessarily for example all the people who came here like post 2020 2015 after

00:47:42 Justin Trudeau was

00:47:44 elected as a prime minister

00:47:47 paused, installed as a

00:47:49 prime minister and paused

00:47:50 basically what

00:47:53 happens is that we have

00:47:55 this problem where

00:47:57 they 0.99

00:47:57 came here to Canada

00:48:00 and Canada is the country that

00:48:03 opened the doors

00:48:04 to them, right?

00:48:07 So for them

00:48:08 the concept of Alberta

00:48:11 just the concept of Alberta is not something that they probably know, okay?

00:48:19 I think that the people who are in favor of independence,

00:48:22 who happen to be immigrants, myself included,

00:48:24 if I call myself immigrant at this point,

00:48:28 are the people who lived here in Canada for a very long time

00:48:31 and saw the difference between 2015 all the way down right now.

00:48:37 So I was talking to, the other day, I was talking to a Chinese national, a guy who is from China.

00:48:44 He's been here in Canada for 30 years and speaks English with a little bit of an accent.

00:48:50 Fine.

00:48:51 And when I was talking about Alberta politics, he was completely on fire on Alberta independence.

00:48:56 He says that Canada is broken beyond repair.

00:49:00 and he said that what happened in China 30 years ago

00:49:04 is literally what's happening in Canada right now.

00:49:08 I remember a while ago, I think it was in February or March,

00:49:13 I was doing a live stream with Jason Levine

00:49:15 and there was a lady from China in the back during the Q&A session.

00:49:20 She was very emotional when she said,

00:49:23 look, you guys have no clue what was happening right now.

00:49:27 You have no clue what's happening.

00:49:29 You have no clue what's coming down the pipe.

00:49:33 I fled communist China, and what's happening in Canada is exactly what happened to China about 30 years ago. 0.55

00:49:41 They escaped from that, and now they have the same thing happening in Canada all over again. 0.96

00:49:48 So I think that there are immigrants who see the danger, they favor Alberta independence. 0.92

00:49:56 They just are not necessarily very vocal about it. 0.95

00:50:00 And those who are not in favor of independence, they're probably doing so by sheer ignorance, i.e. the people who moved here in 2015 to talk about independence.

00:50:13 They see Canada as the country who opened the doors, but they don't think about the country that doesn't exist.

00:50:24 And that's the dangers of a post-national state as it is right now.

00:50:30 You touched a very valid point there.

00:50:33 There are particularly those immigrants who come from countries that have suffered oppression,

00:50:39 who have gone through communist issues, like issues with authoritarianism.

00:50:45 i know of a guy from cuba uh who carlos and he uh he he's like yeah alberta needs to

00:50:54 alberta needs to get the heck out of canada because he knows what communism looks like

00:50:59 and then there's this footage uh this one uh this one clip uh from a gentleman i think he was from

00:51:05 venezuela and he said he was waving an alberta flag you remember that clip that i'm talking about

00:51:10 I don't know. Yeah, I don't know who recorded it. But this this young man, he's from Venezuela, another country that has suffered under communism, not so much so anymore, because Donald Trump did him a little favor getting rid of Maduro there.

00:51:25 But they suffered. They've been suffering under communism for decades and decades.

00:51:31 And immigrants that come from countries like that, right, countries where letting government have a little too much power, they will understand what's happening to Canada, particularly if they've been here long enough. 0.98

00:51:42 Notice that the immigrants who do support our independence are normally people who've been here long enough. 0.81

00:51:48 They've been here for at least 10 years to to see just the decay, just how Canada has been decaying and getting worse and worse, thanks to government, mostly because they're going to blame it on outside factors, the weather, climate boiling across the world is having a war.

00:52:07 So that's why there's two million Canadians visiting a food bank every year.

00:52:11 No, like, no, that's not what it is.

00:52:14 We know exactly what you're doing.

00:52:16 You're bringing in way too many people. 1.00

00:52:18 And immigrants and minorities are starting to complain, probably more than Caucasians. 0.99

00:52:25 People like myself, men of color, like there are way too many people and they're not adapting.

00:52:30 They don't speak the language.

00:52:32 And there are a lot of us who think that way and who believe that in an independent Alberta that is governed with more common sense and with an actual constitution, unlike the top-down government that we have here in Canada, it would serve its citizens well.

00:52:51 where there is immigration, but with measure, with common sense, bringing in people as needed

00:52:58 and making sure that the people that were brought in are very well served by a system that gives them the opportunity

00:53:05 that those who came before them did have, because those that are coming today, they don't have the opportunities.

00:53:11 And then the people that are here also are failing and having less opportunity because they're bringing way too many people.

00:53:18 I want to touch on this comment, and this is from Logan Hogg, 6237, and reads,

00:53:25 Well, Alberta isn't close to communism. I love you guys, but what exactly are you talking about exactly?

00:53:31 And to that respond, to that answer, I would like to basically, if you watch on my channel, like Freedom Calendar,

00:53:38 you're going to see all the town halls on Alberta independence.

00:53:41 And watch the ones from Mitch Sylvester from the APP slash SFA days.

00:53:47 It's not communism in the way that people think about communism, but rather a policy change that is favoring NGOs, is favoring people that you don't necessarily, they have an agenda, right?

00:54:04 And that's what's happening right now is that it's not called communism, but it's operating like communists.

00:54:11 Because if you call yourself communist, people are not necessarily going to be on board with you.

00:54:18 But if you do the same thing as a communist, you're going to see that.

00:54:24 For example, Klaus Schwab, before he became the leader of the president of the World Economic Forum,

00:54:37 was in fact a Danish politician who claimed to be a democratic socialist, right?

00:54:45 What's the NDP right now? New democratic socialist.

00:54:49 It's like potato, potato. It's the same thing. They're communists.

00:54:52 they just don't call themselves communists that's the thing you like you can you have a pile of

00:54:59 of this though it's not just just because historically it was named communism and you

00:55:05 have a certain flavor doesn't mean it's going to in 2026 it's not gonna take that same exact

00:55:13 recipe so um i i do have one little point to add um so you could describe it as uh technocratic

00:55:22 oligarchical uh collectivism is the way that this current form has has manifested so the

00:55:33 technocracy side that's centralized control using multiple uh let it be surveillance let it be

00:55:41 like a digital currency and these technological levers to try to crack down on people and control

00:55:49 how they live their lives how much carbon they're emitting maybe somebody's using too much power

00:55:54 maybe somebody eats too much red meat if we gave all the power they would control those things

00:56:00 because they know what's best and they believe that in the very core of their essence so that's

00:56:07 the that's the technocratic aspect of it the um oligarchical is that's that bureaucracy that's

00:56:15 the you've got a ruling managerial class who thinks they have like they they know what is

00:56:23 best for other people and that's how they operate and then the collectivism is that's the piece that

00:56:29 people normally associate with communism is the redistribution of wealth and i think people don't

00:56:37 fully understand where wealth actually comes from it's not a zero-sum game and like you

00:56:45 right now people think of canada as like oh you have these robust social services and we often

00:56:54 get into a conversation where we think of like well look at sweden and norway and some of these

00:56:58 nordic countries and they have robust welfare systems but if you look at how they actually

00:57:04 pay for it they empower the private sector in a way that canada does not canada has a larger

00:57:12 public sector with the government choosing winners and losers and as soon as you get past 50

00:57:20 you are into the communism territory how much in communism i think 50 percent is

00:57:28 roughly is it do you know that well and i'll i'll like to add communism isn't the thing

00:57:34 that you just wake up one day and suddenly you're wearing a red shirt that says number 50 and your

00:57:39 neighbor is number 51 and you're all living in houses that are painted the same color

00:57:43 communism takes time and there are there are signs of it an ever-growing government like james just

00:57:51 alluded to an ever-growing government that thinks it knows what's best for you what's best for your

00:57:56 children a government that thinks they need to feed your kids because they made it so nearly

00:58:00 impossible for you to feed your own kids, right? They now have some sort of program,

00:58:06 lunch program at the schools when instead of lowering taxes on groceries so that people can

00:58:11 afford to feed their own children. A government that determines whether you get to go on a road

00:58:17 trip or not because they increase or decrease the price of carbon, you shouldn't be taking a road

00:58:23 trip this summer while they fly around and they go everywhere. A government that determines what

00:58:28 is proper speech and what is illegal speech and what and what isn't right like controlling your

00:58:34 speech is canada headed towards a bigger government bigger government control when it comes to those

00:58:41 topics and many others and i believe it is in every single one of those canada's becoming more

00:58:46 totalitarian and and to that note what also happens as well oh i think you got a super chat pj that's

00:58:54 awesome so thank you yeah you got it you got a 5w super chat super sticker thanks thanks guys

00:59:01 so another thing that also happens and this is in regard to the new world order side of things is

00:59:08 that we can we have a lot of a lot of people are talking about provincial politics federal politics

00:59:15 but almost nobody talks about municipal politics and a lot of what was happening right now like

00:59:21 If I'm in Edmonton, the stuff about the bike lanes is what is making people absolutely mad.

00:59:30 The infield, like the zoning laws, is absolutely outrageous.

00:59:35 Putting houses in the middle of two houses is like insane, right?

00:59:40 But why is it that happened?

00:59:42 because if you look at the municipal politics,

00:59:46 did you know that only 10% of people in Edmonton,

00:59:50 the last municipal election, actually voted?

00:59:53 10% actually dared to vote.

00:59:57 That's crazy.

00:59:58 10% relative to a 45, 50% on an average provincial election.

01:00:07 And municipal politics, literally what is paying your,

01:00:10 Even if you live in an apartment, your apartment monthly payment is going to increase directly because of the municipal taxes.

01:00:23 People don't notice.

01:00:25 So that's going to be the number one reason to get involved politically, not just politically at the provincial level, federal level, but also municipal.

01:00:37 And why is it important?

01:00:39 because essentially there are roadblocks by the provincial government

01:00:44 or talking provincially here in Alberta

01:00:46 that are essentially trying to prevent the meddling of federal politics

01:00:53 inside provincial jurisdiction.

01:00:55 But another way to bypass it is to corrupt and influence municipal politics.

01:01:03 And we're not talking about the city of Edmonton.

01:01:05 We're not just talking about Red Deer.

01:01:08 but just at the county level, like Sturgeon County, 13 Howland County, Red Deer County,

01:01:14 Lacombe County, because that's essentially municipal level.

01:01:19 So you need to get involved at the municipal level.

01:01:22 It is not normal to have, I know a lady, I don't know if she's watching right now, 0.99

01:01:28 but she's very involved at her county, and the counselors absolutely hate her.

01:01:34 They despise her because she is absolutely hated by the current county administration because every time there is a dry law, every time something happens, she goes up there and says, no, I disagree. 0.99

01:01:53 You're nuts. 1.00

01:01:54 You're insane. 1.00

01:01:57 Every single time. 0.99

01:02:00 But there's one of her in every county.

01:02:03 You need to be the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, and have many people together like this.

01:02:11 And once you start to get to that point, then people can actually support you.

01:02:15 So start with what's happening at your back door first, because that's what's happening right now.

01:02:21 So municipal politics is, I think, more important than provincial politics, to my belief.

01:02:27 And that is where a lot of those initiatives, like New World Order initiatives, like net zero, bike lanes, garbage collection, all those things, they all come in.

01:02:44 15-minute cities.

01:02:45 It's all based at the municipal level, funneled and paid by federal money.

01:02:51 The biggest culprit is the Federation of Municipal, the Municipal Council, that's a federally managed association with cities from all over Canada.

01:03:09 And they dictate how cities are going to run, including smaller towns.

01:03:14 Like, for example, if you are, let's say, let's just spitball in here.

01:03:19 Let's say you're in Westlock, or let's say you're in Boyle.

01:03:25 Like, Boyle is about 500 people.

01:03:27 I'll just give an example here, like trying to, this is just theoretical here.

01:03:32 Like, if you take a town like Boyle, Boyle, Alberta,

01:03:36 which is on Highway 28 all the way to Edmonton for Mac,

01:03:40 if you talk to the people and you ask them, do you want some bike lanes,

01:03:46 who's going to go to the bike lanes?

01:03:48 those guys are driving pickup trucks at minus 45 diesel trucks they're going to give a care about

01:03:54 bike lanes but what will happen if they do put a bike in who's going to use them

01:03:59 so one one thing to touch on though is how these ideas propagate um and i i did want to say that

01:04:07 like the new world order side of things though it's really good to understand i haven't had much

01:04:14 success talking with people who are not subscribed who don't already know about the wef or they think

01:04:23 it's a good conference of good ideas and everything it's a hard it's a hard thing to unpack so i

01:04:28 usually go a layer deeper into the just the fundamental principles of things but when it

01:04:33 comes to um what we're up against is we're actually up against institutional capture because

01:04:40 these ideas get spread around and they get adopted because they have uh institutional power

01:04:47 in a sense so there's this term called idea laundering where you have like academic journals

01:04:53 that are more ideological in nature and they'll put out studies and it'll be passed through peer

01:05:00 review without very much um okay yeah with uh it was good to have you pj uh yeah pj is hey pj has

01:05:10 to pj has to leave at seven he has a commitment so thank you very much pj we'll continue the show

01:05:15 anyways um but yeah essentially yeah go ahead james yeah so um these journals they let it be

01:05:24 climate science or gender ideology or any other kind of more grievance study they'll publish this

01:05:32 they'll have laxed kind of peer-reviewed processes and then once a couple papers get published on

01:05:38 these or the use of bike lanes or use of solar panels other journals will cite all these previous

01:05:45 studies and then it's just a circle of them citing each other and now there's a large body of

01:05:53 research and a large body of studies that people will point to and they're flawed in some way but

01:06:00 when you try to either say like okay well wind and solar panel maybe that's that's not the best

01:06:08 for alberta or uh well like are bike lines necessary in this kind of place they will

01:06:15 point to a study and then dismiss your argument straight from there um so it gets tricky to

01:06:22 unpack these ideas with people because they'll point to the institutions that have already

01:06:27 made all these conclusions oh yeah absolutely and if we talk about as the subject of the subject

01:06:33 of independence i've seen uh that many of the chiefs that are pushing against albert independence

01:06:41 are being paid by the taos foundation which is essentially greenpeace over in uh over steroids

01:06:49 basically right so that's a lot of money to influence a lot of people that this is like the

01:06:56 george soros type of people you know the george soros type of people they all gravitate into the

01:07:03 uh tales foundation so yeah it's in a lot of conversations you'll at some point you will

01:07:12 come up and you'll be arguing with the tv or you'll be arguing with this propaganda when you're

01:07:18 discussing with people um so this is where if you are going to the fundamental layer like the

01:07:26 foundational principles i think sometimes that's effective so when it comes to municipal like

01:07:33 municipalities um you would ask them like well how good is our garbage collection how good are

01:07:40 our actual services or how good is the water in calgary like you have all these other initiatives

01:07:45 that they're putting effort into and a real big dumb question is why are they doing all these

01:07:52 other initiatives when they can't even handle basic services yeah so this is from the toronto

01:07:58 sun right now first nation chief this is in 2014 guys 2014 okay and by estrell event by the time

01:08:08 he wasn't he wasn't with rebel news uh extra event 50 000 g 50 000 received from the taos

01:08:15 foundation and you see it's a this is when people talk about political interference you know this is

01:08:22 a san francisco that is international yeah interference if for those people san francisco

01:08:30 that's like what are what are they doing paying people in alberta to like

01:08:36 yeah so this is directly money from the states going to canada and paying people in canada

01:08:45 to influence public opinions so by the way we're not paid by donald trump we're not made by

01:08:52 platmir putin so joseph away but those folks they get paid by international money in the states in

01:09:00 san francisco right so that's where it remained by a new world order is it's not the concept of

01:09:07 it's just the lack of sovereignty from political decisions that's what it is basically because like

01:09:15 have you ever voted for mass immigration raise your hands if you have voted for race immigration

01:09:22 crickets it's not like there's been one policy or one referendum where people said yes we want

01:09:29 one million more people in canada yeah absolutely the thais foundation is a george soro group

01:09:38 again again alexander so here's a here's a thought when it comes to some of these issues it's

01:09:46 how it starts is they'll say well canada we're well off and we gotta extend our arms and we're

01:09:52 a welcoming compassionate place therefore we gotta save people with the refugees or

01:09:57 our birth rate's too low and we need temporary foreign workers to work these jobs and so it 1.00

01:10:04 comes from like this seemingly normal point of view but it kind of gets washed through like

01:10:11 well the numbers aren't really reported accurately well because you have actual

01:10:16 like you have full immigration you have temporary foreign workers you have temp like permanent

01:10:23 residents and then you have people like the refugee side of things and the numbers get a

01:10:30 little bit skewed and i think year to year people are like well they it sounds like a reasonable

01:10:37 amount but they're not including everybody that is if you factor in everybody that's a lot of strain

01:10:43 on like hospitals schools and so that that becomes a unsustainable number but they've made it

01:10:52 so politically inconvenient that like you would be you're considered racist if you oppose that

01:10:59 because we're supposed to have a hundred percent compassion to a hundred percent of people a hundred

01:11:05 percent of the time you got to extend your heart why because we live in canada so that's a lot to

01:11:12 undo in some of these conversations but i think more people are starting to realize um we've hit

01:11:18 a breaking point and for some some groups of immigrants if they're not the dominant immigrant

01:11:25 group i think those people might actually be worried that they'd be outvoted from the interests

01:11:30 of other immigrants that do not have their best interests in mind absolutely absolutely so basically

01:11:38 i mean basically what it means is that we have to step away we need to step up and tackle those 0.99

01:11:47 things the subject of independence why is that people are jumping on the independence stream

01:11:52 that much is because of stuff like that like when people are essentially i read i read a i read

01:12:00 something about how people are not necessarily backing up provincial uh federal politics right

01:12:06 now is because they only see alberta separation as the last straw basically you're essentially

01:12:14 cutting the head of this giant hydra called canada or called the new world order system

01:12:21 or you know whatever and that is what's happening right now is that by becoming independent you're

01:12:29 going to be left behind all those power structures but what kind of worries me is that and this is

01:12:37 something that kind of really worries me about open independence uh in a in a very weird way

01:12:42 is that we need to make sure that the things that we left Canada from

01:12:48 are not going to be implemented in a new Republic of Alberta.

01:12:53 If they're coming here, then, well, like, they're coming to Canada

01:12:57 because Canada has something distinct and special that wasn't the case

01:13:03 where they came from.

01:13:05 But if where they came from, like, let's say, let's just take India as an example. 0.84

01:13:10 If Canada turns into India, like, well, why do they come to Canada then if it's essentially just like if it loses all sense of being Canada, then why even come here at this point? 0.91

01:13:27 because we apparently had something unique and worth worthy of people wanting to leave their 0.97

01:13:36 homes and travel thousands of miles to get here so then the question is like well isn't that worth

01:13:46 protecting and then if it's not if we're not able to protect it at a Canada wide level

01:13:52 So can we protect that pioneering spirit, these foundational values that built Canada, that built Alberta?

01:14:00 Can we protect that within Alberta itself?

01:14:03 And I think our best shot is within Alberta.

01:14:07 Absolutely.

01:14:08 There is a conference that will be held in Calgary.

01:14:11 I think it's going to be on Saturday.

01:14:12 I will be there because I will be there not streaming but just taping the event.

01:14:17 They're going to have Leighton Gray, Michael Wagner, and I have a bunch of others.

01:14:22 I don't have the list on top of me, but they're going to talk about the Constitutional Convention,

01:14:29 a possible Constitutional Conference for Alberta independence.

01:14:33 And they're going to have folks like Leighton Gray, Michael Wagner,

01:14:39 Green Abraham will be there as well.

01:14:42 Green Abraham is a huge theology guy.

01:14:47 So that's going to be very interesting to see.

01:14:50 So that's going to be very interesting.

01:14:52 But one of the topics is that we need to bring Christian values

01:14:56 into a new constitutional, into the new constitution.

01:15:01 Because if you look at the history of Canada,

01:15:05 Canada adopted a multicultural position from Trudeau Senior, 0.90

01:15:10 and that is when this country started to fall apart, basically.

01:15:16 Now we have those, it's like nothing against immigration, but they were, at that time, they just removed the federal government adopted multiculturalism as the standard instead of Christian values.

01:15:33 Yeah, and ultimately, that I've kind of articulated this before, multi-ethnic can work if there's shared values that glue people together.

01:15:44 multicultural doesn't work because what you get is enclaves you get pockets you get

01:15:51 communities keeping together they speak their own language they have their own values 1.00

01:15:55 and then you don't have a glue that you don't have a sense of national identity

01:16:01 um and you just have special interest groups competing against other special interests

01:16:08 and and they are just that they're voting blocs at that point so there's no shared community other

01:16:16 than like other than just the community of those who speak the same language yeah exactly it's like

01:16:25 in the states uh the united states of america was known as this bastion of freedom but if you go to

01:16:32 any kind of country

01:16:34 like if you go to

01:16:36 let's say in a place

01:16:38 like in a city

01:16:39 in states

01:16:41 it's a very entrepreneurial place

01:16:43 some people have their businesses and everything

01:16:45 but you might also have

01:16:48 the Greek guy

01:16:50 or the Iranian guy

01:16:52 or the Pakistani guy

01:16:54 having a business and hiring people

01:16:56 not imposing his values

01:17:00 but he was running a business

01:17:01 and he's passing this well to his generations, you know.

01:17:06 That's why we need to, I think, do that.

01:17:09 But when we have all those people coming from other countries,

01:17:12 I won't give you names. 0.90

01:17:14 You don't need to behave as your... 1.00

01:17:17 You need to behave like Westerners, basically, 1.00

01:17:23 and not bringing your ways of doing things, 0.97

01:17:28 like from other countries to Canada.

01:17:30 It is not normal to see some people littering garbage on the driveway

01:17:38 because they were doing this in their country, but in here we do not.

01:17:42 That's why we have garbage collection.

01:17:44 That's why we do things in a certain way.

01:17:47 If you bring your way of doing things here in Alberta or in Canada,

01:17:52 people don't necessarily like it.

01:17:55 What do you think of that?

01:17:56 Well, there's a simple...

01:17:58 That's what we mentioned, basically.

01:18:00 yeah the uh i wouldn't move to japan and expect them to cater to the way that i live so

01:18:10 the thing is if i moved to japan i would be there would be a lot of pressure for me to

01:18:17 live like the japanese live and their threshold for calling you a fellow japanese is very high

01:18:25 because they've got such a unified culture

01:18:28 that they won't just give that label to anybody.

01:18:32 So there are some people that maybe they weren't

01:18:36 like ethnically Japanese,

01:18:38 but they've lived there for 20 years.

01:18:40 They speak the language.

01:18:41 They're really in touch with the culture.

01:18:44 And those people, after a certain amount of time,

01:18:49 okay, they will be comfortable.

01:18:51 others will be comfortable calling them japanese at that point but the threshold is very high

01:18:58 in canada we've lowered the threshold to not include any sort of assimilation absolutely um

01:19:07 i think it's worth also differentiating between like immigration in the last

01:19:14 five ten years versus immigration in the 80s and 90s i think what the you had more

01:19:22 um an entrepreneurs back then you had more um more of the high skilled they really wanted to

01:19:31 integrate um even even my grandparents and great-grandparents um i have ukrainian roots

01:19:39 and some polish roots as well and they would never they would all like out in public they

01:19:46 would always speak english that was one of their rules that like they they made a a huge point to

01:19:54 integrate and sure they would go to like poker halls and they would enjoy the some dances and

01:20:01 some music and that just to get together and celebrate their culture but they didn't impose

01:20:10 their culture on other people that's true um i remember a while ago i was talking those as this

01:20:15 lady as the uh as this pharmacy um and she has a clear issue speaking english and and because my 1.00

01:20:28 first language is spanish and her default behavior is that if somebody doesn't understand her 0.99

01:20:35 she goes back to spanish and i could technically speak spanish with her but i choose not to

01:20:41 because what's going to happen next is that she's she's not going to learn the language she is the

01:20:47 one who needs to learn english in the first place not me well i think but it's as i mentioned if

01:20:54 you go into a country and this is something that one of the comment sections says is like

01:20:59 this is something a comment I just saw you like I spot in the comments but basically you need to

01:21:06 adapt your country you're going in like when I moved here to Alberta I was basically doing my

01:21:12 research as to why as to what Alberta looks like politically and speaking and what kind of motivate

01:21:19 me to move west is this deep entrepreneurial spirit that we tend to find in the United States,

01:21:26 you know, because in Quebec specifically, if you want to start a business, the government's 0.99

01:21:31 going to sue your ass. It's going to be this, it's this, it's this. It's not, they have a very, 0.98

01:21:37 very, very different cultural structure that we have here in Alberta, at least in Saskatchewan.

01:21:42 So when you move to a place, you have to look at what they're actually doing. And it's your

01:21:48 responsibility to fit into the culture right and not the other way around

01:21:53 yeah and um yeah so that that's a difficult thing to describe well like it's a conversation with a

01:22:06 lot of landmines so it takes some skill not to be inflammatory in describing that but it's a worthy

01:22:13 thing of like it has to be talked about because if you don't talk about like well what does it

01:22:20 actually mean to be canadian at some point we're just going to lose it um if there's no pressure

01:22:25 absolutely if there's nothing no incentives to to share these common values um then like well

01:22:34 why why called canada at this point like why not just absolutely else yeah absolutely uh i wanted

01:22:43 to go to the next subject, we don't mind

01:22:45 we're going to talk about another thing

01:22:47 that is really going up in the news

01:22:49 this is called

01:22:50 3,400 to leave Alberta

01:22:53 to leave Canada, and that is

01:22:55 Bill 22, shall we?

01:22:58 Yeah

01:22:58 So I was looking at

01:23:01 this bill, this piece of legislation

01:23:03 and I found this surprisingly

01:23:05 interesting

01:23:06 summary from Grok, by the way

01:23:09 they do a great job

01:23:10 I know it's AI, but

01:23:12 basically what I found out is that

01:23:15 because right now what's happening

01:23:17 is that if you look at my

01:23:19 I'm going to look at my Twitter feed here

01:23:21 I'm just going to share you something

01:23:22 I'm going to roll my mark marks

01:23:27 and

01:23:27 so if you look at this

01:23:30 I'm going to share this screen here

01:23:31 so if you look at this

01:23:33 we have this company called Winscribe

01:23:35 that if

01:23:37 BLC22 passes

01:23:39 they're going to move

01:23:41 their headquarters to the united states or another country they're going to pack their bags and leave

01:23:48 and signal is doing the same thing for those freedom groups who are using signal

01:23:53 this is what happens meta as well too is planning to do the same in many other companies i believe

01:24:00 that shopify will do the same so was so so why this is important to talk about it aside that is

01:24:09 from is an erosion from freedoms is this part here.

01:24:14 So this is a summary that I pulled from Grok.

01:24:17 I just said, okay, just give me the key points

01:24:20 from Bill 22, and this is the part

01:24:25 that it is very interesting, very damaging.

01:24:29 It requires certain electronic service providers

01:24:32 like cloud providers, telecom communications

01:24:35 like Telos Rogers, what have you,

01:24:37 send what they call

01:24:39 metadata. Metadata is

01:24:41 basically the information about

01:24:43 the information

01:24:45 and that will be stored

01:24:47 by the government and

01:24:49 cloud providers like Microsoft

01:24:51 365, Google Apps

01:24:53 and even

01:24:55 cloud providers like OVH

01:24:57 will have to

01:24:58 abide to those legislations.

01:25:02 And that's very challenging

01:25:03 because

01:25:04 Canada by this law is going to lose a lot of jobs in the tech sector

01:25:15 because Canada will be seen as this country that no longer supports innovation

01:25:21 and Canada will become another shell of a country

01:25:30 by becoming another territorial state by requiring those regulations

01:25:34 Because if you look at core service providers, and I used to work in IT, so I cannot know those things, I guess.

01:25:40 When you say core service providers defined by regulations, big telecoms must meet baseline requirements, that's going to create two issues.

01:25:49 One is, okay, so the companies need to implement restrictions by the federal government.

01:25:57 Those regulations will definitely going to take time and money for them to comply.

01:26:02 and who's going to pay for those things?

01:26:05 The customer.

01:26:08 So no wonder why your cell phone bill will increase

01:26:11 because of those technologies that need to be implemented.

01:26:17 So that's what I call a deferred tax

01:26:21 because the companies need to comply

01:26:24 but they can't afford because that is about,

01:26:27 these are about millions and billions of investment

01:26:31 to comply with the government

01:26:34 and they have to pay it somewhere

01:26:36 so that cost will be sent

01:26:38 to the customer.

01:26:40 Not to mention that

01:26:40 countries will, not to mention

01:26:44 that companies

01:26:45 that's the reason we're living

01:26:48 is because they see

01:26:49 the writing on the wall, they say

01:26:51 no, we're not going to comply with those regulations

01:26:54 it's too expensive to run a business in Canada

01:26:56 so they're going to move.

01:26:58 So what's going to happen?

01:26:59 people in tech sector will be laid off again canada's making itself weaker by design so

01:27:09 the privacy considerations are one thing but the self like just adding layers of regulation

01:27:15 makes canada instantly less competitive and i know the funny thing is they might actually try to

01:27:22 they create a problem that's like okay well they're leaving now and they don't like these

01:27:27 new regulations and then they might give a subsidy to some so again they're picking the winners and

01:27:33 losers so they've created a problem that only they can solve and now they can say like well

01:27:38 we've given subsidies and look we kept these we grew these businesses or we grew this sector 0.95

01:27:43 but what they really did is just slightly undid 30 percent of the damage that they created through

01:27:51 these insane policies yeah absolutely and and that's going to happen is that what will happen

01:27:58 is that the companies who are in the market right now like microsoft specifically who has i think

01:28:05 three data centers in the country one in quebec city one in toronto and they're building i think

01:28:11 they're i think in vancouver they have a new one or something i don't know fully 100 those companies

01:28:16 they'll have to, because they have the cash flow, they can afford to implement those regular

01:28:21 government regulations. But if you want to use those services, then you have to go by the rules

01:28:28 and such and such and such. It will be almost impossible for third parties to actually,

01:28:35 or new startups to actually use their infrastructure. It's another way of controlling

01:28:39 the market by big factors and that's is going to only allow the big players like microsoft google

01:28:48 and all the other guys to compete in a market that's been dominated by just an oligarchy

01:28:53 basically that's the way i see things the fine aspect so let's say you have certain regulations

01:28:58 and you have a certain threshold of fines like and penalties or whatever if you don't meet certain

01:29:06 regulations that again prices out small businesses and prevents so like no small business for a lot

01:29:16 of these things they can't handle a lot of like first of all okay well you got to submit this

01:29:21 proposal and get this signed off of and have somebody inspect this and um there's already a

01:29:28 lot of hurdles to starting a new business and then the cost of that those elements alone is a lot and

01:29:34 then the cost of if anything isn't right the cost of fines is enough to tank somebody who's

01:29:41 essentially paying for this small business out of their own pocket oh yeah again you are stifling

01:29:46 any kind of innovation and like should we be surprised that canada's like our growth per

01:29:53 gdp is stagnating compared to any other g7 country like should be no surprise at this point because

01:30:00 of all these self-imposed rules and regulations.

01:30:07 And as I was going through that Bill C-22, because I spent roughly a week trying to look

01:30:12 at information at this bill, and it's very damaging, along with Bill C-8, Bill C-9, who

01:30:21 can put us in jail if we dare to talk about Supreme Leader Carney, you know.

01:30:26 so that's gonna be like the fan like the bill sweet 22 will be the nail on the coffin so when

01:30:34 you talk about communism like it's happened like in china right now they have what they call the

01:30:39 great firewall of china and i know people who are in china right now i talk to them on a daily basis

01:30:45 and over there if there's some piece of information that the government doesn't like

01:30:50 the screens on the gyms, they go black, right?

01:30:55 If you want to go on a website that is not authorized by the government, there are people

01:31:00 actually going to your houses and give you your finances or lower your credit score saying,

01:31:05 hey, you can't go on a website.

01:31:07 This is forbidden, yada, yada, yada.

01:31:09 There's the fines going to cost you.

01:31:11 This is going to lower your credit score.

01:31:13 That's how they operate.

01:31:14 So by allowing this framework is, by this framework allows guys like Cisco, because all the network infrastructure in China is owned by Cisco, they got a very juicy contract to monopolize the network infrastructure management in China via China Telecom.

01:31:35 So it's going to only create, as you said, James, only allow a certain, like only a few players in the market to operate.

01:31:48 That's why you have the bigger players like Videotron, TELUS, also buying all those small service providers.

01:31:57 I believe TELUS just purchased a very local provider called Onet and Alts.

01:32:05 And in Quebec, Videotron just purchased like a dozen of independent cable providers, right?

01:32:14 Rogers was recently purchased Shaw. 0.99

01:32:16 So they're trying to get all this power into the hands of probably a handful of telecom companies because they have the cap to implement those idiotic, insane regulations. 0.99

01:32:30 yeah it's uh this is not this is you can't regulate yourself to prosperity 0.94

01:32:39 at this point so yeah the um i think that's a worthy talking point when trying to funnel back

01:32:48 to people um the the thing with a lot of these bills is uh i'll leave you with this kind of one

01:32:56 this one thought um there are people that are comfortable with bills because their team is in

01:33:04 power right now but what they should consider is okay well the power to okay disclose or like if

01:33:14 cesus can come in and um get all the metadata and or subscriber data or if they can if they've got

01:33:22 that level of control and the liberals are no longer in power and at the federal level and what

01:33:28 what happens if the conservatives are in and they're they hate the conservatives they don't

01:33:32 trust the conservatives so they've given government a huge amount of power that they're only comfortable

01:33:38 with because they think their friends are in power right now so then we should ask would you trust

01:33:46 your enemies with that power and so if you don't trust your enemies then and you can't guarantee

01:33:55 that the people that have your best interest will always be in power then that rule that power should

01:34:02 not be we should not be allowing that to take hold at all absolutely absolutely so any closing

01:34:11 remarks james because i think you're going to uh step up are you yeah the uh i think well i i'm

01:34:18 glad you uh reached out and it's great to have a chat tonight and yeah um the we'll do it again

01:34:24 yeah like it's it's getting interesting but it really comes down to this is the campaigning

01:34:30 part of it this is us reaching out to friends and family this is us just having better conversations

01:34:35 and there's a lot of work ahead of us

01:34:37 and we've got to keep our heads level.

01:34:40 There's going to be a lot of moments

01:34:41 that are going to feel grim.

01:34:43 They're going to feel demoralizing.

01:34:45 It's going to be like attack after attack

01:34:48 after like just smears and just media stories.

01:34:52 And your favorite hero in the Independence movies

01:34:56 is going to be,

01:34:57 there's going to be a hit piece against them.

01:34:58 It doesn't matter how squeaky clean they are.

01:35:01 They are going to demonize everybody.

01:35:05 Absolutely, it's going to be a bumpy ride

01:35:07 It's going to be a bumpy ride, absolutely

01:35:09 Well, thank you very much, James

01:35:11 And I want to thank PJ who had to leave just earlier

01:35:16 And I want everybody to thank everybody for tuning in

01:35:21 On James' channel, my channel, and PJ's channel as well

01:35:25 Thank you very much for tuning in

01:35:27 We're definitely going to do it again for sure

01:35:29 And we'll talk soon in the next one

01:35:33 also next week

01:35:35 I will be streaming

01:35:36 the two

01:35:37 two

01:35:37 two independence

01:35:39 events

01:35:39 from

01:35:40 from

01:35:41 LexTalk Alberta

01:35:43 so the streaming

01:35:44 links will be done

01:35:46 will be generated

01:35:46 soon

01:35:47 and thanks very much

01:35:48 for tuning in

01:35:49 thanks for the super

01:35:50 chats from all the

01:35:51 channels

01:35:51 I know PJ

01:35:52 has some

01:35:52 I had some

01:35:53 and thanks for the

01:35:55 comments

01:35:55 and thanks for

01:35:57 coming in

01:35:58 have a good one

01:35:58 alright we'll see you

01:36:00 in the next one

01:36:03 Thank you.

01:36:33 Thank you.

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The Critical Compass Podcast - May 14, 2026

Independence Talk with PJ The Belt & the Freedom Calendar

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