The Critical Compass Podcast - March 26, 2026


Independence - What Does Alberta Stand to LOSE？ ｜ Kathy Flett


Episode Stats

Length

11 minutes

Words per Minute

154.40184

Word Count

1,717

Sentence Count

66

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

2


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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 most of us don't actually know too much about our own provincial history when I
00:00:09.600 went down the rabbit trail of finding out how we got to be where we are today
00:00:14.440 imagine my shock when I came across this quote we desire every patriotic
00:00:22.440 Canadian desires that the great trade of the prairie shall go to enrich our own
00:00:29.000 people in the East to build up the factories and workshops in Eastern
00:00:34.780 Canada and contribute in every way to its prosperity those words were said in
00:00:41.640 1904 by the Honorable Sir Clifford Sifton of course this was the year
00:00:46.140 before we became a province and what most people don't know and I didn't
00:00:50.680 either is that Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only two provinces within this
00:00:55.120 Confederation that were colonized there were no negotiations there were no
00:01:01.900 talks there were no meetings we were just told this is how it's going to be
00:01:07.540 suck it up there wasn't even an election we were appointed our first premier who
00:01:15.940 happened to be a liberal shocking and here we are all these years decades over
00:01:22.420 100 years later and the more things change the more they stay the same we're told that well
00:01:30.900 the east has two times the mps and two times the senators as the west because it's representation
00:01:37.380 by population get busy ladies and gentlemen okay well let's visit that does the math math
00:01:46.980 what time did the last provincial election get called does anybody remember in the spring what
00:01:52.020 What time did they call that provincial election?
00:01:53.780 When did they call the winner?
00:01:55.900 8 o'clock.
00:01:57.160 What time do our polls close?
00:02:00.000 8 o'clock.
00:02:01.640 They hadn't even ripped open our ballot boxes to see who we voted for.
00:02:06.120 Even if you voted for the winner, and in this province,
00:02:09.800 you all best be careful if you admit that publicly.
00:02:12.180 But if you did, they didn't need your vote to do it.
00:02:15.580 So it still didn't count.
00:02:18.680 The math ain't mathin'.
00:02:21.580 Knowing that everything that goes through Parliament has to go through MPs first,
00:02:29.040 vote on it, and then it goes to the Senate, right?
00:02:32.320 The Senate, other than a handful, are all liberal appointees now.
00:02:36.480 We don't vote them in.
00:02:37.540 We try, but we don't.
00:02:38.480 Did you know that?
00:02:38.960 They're all liberal appointees.
00:02:40.220 So even if Polly haven't gotten in, would it have mattered?
00:02:46.240 You see, the system is not broken.
00:02:48.020 it's working exactly as it's designed so we have a problem and now we're starting to really really
00:03:00.120 think about that problem and when we do we get accused of oh it's just all about pipelines
00:03:04.760 all right let's talk that out is it really all about pipelines it's part of it but energy east
00:03:13.400 we were told was socially unacceptable.
00:03:16.380 So we didn't get to build it.
00:03:18.560 That was what we were told.
00:03:20.040 Yet the East gets its oil
00:03:21.620 and now natural gas from other countries.
00:03:25.740 As our Prime Minister tells us,
00:03:27.840 we're going to be our own best customer.
00:03:29.460 Elbows up.
00:03:32.360 All right.
00:03:33.240 Okay.
00:03:34.040 Northern Gateway.
00:03:34.960 We had another idea.
00:03:35.960 Northern Gateway.
00:03:36.820 Let's go.
00:03:37.980 There's a looming shortage now.
00:03:39.300 That pipeline would be amazing to have.
00:03:43.400 right now in the state that we're in nope no can do might be a frog in the water can't happen
00:03:51.480 dirty oil keep it in the ground and by the way alberta we bought you a pipeline remember
00:03:57.320 trans mountain hello you know what if the truth about trans mountain was actually told
00:04:01.800 it should be a national embarrassment so is this all about the money and pipelines
00:04:08.840 or is it about what's behind it all let's talk taxes equalization our money
00:04:15.800 is good enough for the east but not our product right equalization is a fancy
00:04:21.840 very long formula that determines who the have provinces are and who the
00:04:27.380 have-nots are and they take from the have to give to the have-nots and very
00:04:30.800 simplistically all it means is that even when we are in a recession we pay and
00:04:35.300 and even when eastern provinces are not they receive the reason for that is because harper
00:04:40.580 changed it to include 50 of our resource revenues but exclude quebec's for eastern votes
00:04:48.580 so is it all about money all the time or is it about fairness the national debt
00:04:54.420 will take on the debt so you don't have to remember that we're paying it that's a lot of
00:05:01.380 the inflation that's making things uncomfortable right now and new this week did you guys hear
00:05:08.260 about the home equity tax they're starting to talk about so it's not bad enough you pay property tax
00:05:15.220 on the value of your home now the federal government every month or sorry every year
00:05:20.660 you get to pay and potentially pay an equity tax let's talk morality human trafficking has absolutely
00:05:30.340 skyrocketed in this country. 700% in Ontario alone. I don't recall that ever being a thing
00:05:38.380 growing up here. 17% of Canadians feel safe. I wonder why. How many of you, I love asking this
00:05:46.480 question, how many of you remember leaving your keys in the ignition of your unlocked vehicle
00:05:53.300 while you slept in your unlocked home all night long so you didn't lose your keys in the morning
00:05:58.680 and you had no clue where the house key was.
00:06:03.980 What happened?
00:06:06.260 We didn't do this.
00:06:09.940 When considering what sentence to give those who hurt our children,
00:06:15.360 there's little ones in the room, I cleaned that up, fill in the blanks,
00:06:19.280 judges are taking into account how their decision might affect
00:06:24.140 that pervert's immigration status.
00:06:28.680 We live in a country who doesn't care about our kids, and we're supposed to want to stay here.
00:06:35.760 And we don't have the votes in Parliament or in the Senate or both combined to fix it, because it's not broken.
00:06:42.640 So we've been exploring and considering our options, and the response and the reaction from the rest of Canada has been disappointing, to say the least.
00:06:51.120 It started out with, remember this, you can't leave.
00:06:55.140 Yeah, we can.
00:06:56.340 Thank you, Quebec.
00:06:58.680 Yeah, we can.
00:06:59.920 So when they figured that out, that that argument wasn't going to work,
00:07:03.220 then they came at us with this one.
00:07:05.400 Do you know what you'll be giving up?
00:07:11.480 So I made a list.
00:07:13.060 It's not an exhaustive list, but I made a list.
00:07:15.280 Here we go. Tell me how I do.
00:07:16.940 We will be giving up.
00:07:19.380 Living under a government that delights in stifling our growth,
00:07:22.380 caused numerous politically induced recessions,
00:07:24.420 landlocked us through policy, regulates everything possible,
00:07:26.900 because that's the next best thing to nationalizing it,
00:07:29.280 steals our money through taxation
00:07:30.580 and then launders it to benefit themselves and their friends,
00:07:33.340 believe in open borders so anyone can just walk in, and they do,
00:07:36.500 unbelievable levels of Chinese interference in our political system,
00:07:39.780 extortion being carried out by Indian gangs here in our borders
00:07:42.940 and Alberta, by the way.
00:07:44.700 Now we find out we've got Mexican drug cartels,
00:07:47.220 all of which continues to destroy relationships
00:07:49.700 with our largest trading partners.
00:07:51.420 On top of that, we now have censorship laws,
00:07:53.560 a gun buyback program,
00:07:54.600 and a Supreme Court who just ruled that invoking the Emergencies Act was indeed unconstitutional
00:08:00.020 and a lot of what did was an oops.
00:08:05.980 That's what we're leaving.
00:08:08.160 That's what we're leaving.
00:08:10.760 But here's what we can gain.
00:08:14.020 Because we'd no longer be under the Canada Health Act,
00:08:16.580 we can finally have state-of-the-art health care with no wait times.
00:08:21.380 And rather than us traveling to other countries to get the care we need
00:08:25.040 because we can't get it here, Alberta could be a health care destination.
00:08:29.520 That's pretty cool.
00:08:31.160 Pension plans, by bringing them here in-house to the local level,
00:08:34.660 we will have so much more control over where they are invested
00:08:37.760 and how it's paid out.
00:08:39.400 Not to mention anything that's left in.
00:08:42.180 Why can't that go into your estate instead of the ether?
00:08:46.880 Right?
00:08:48.120 Speaking of the ether, how many of you have paid into EI that used to be called UI,
00:08:52.220 but now apparently you're not allowed to call it that?
00:08:53.800 How many have paid in, never got a dime, or very little back?
00:08:57.020 Speaking of ether?
00:08:59.980 You're getting some back now?
00:09:01.220 Praise God.
00:09:03.620 Like, really.
00:09:04.940 Praise God.
00:09:06.300 Well, for the rest of us that didn't, and it's our money, roll it into your pension.
00:09:11.780 We could do that.
00:09:13.420 We'd have a blank canvas.
00:09:14.440 with our own police force criminal code and judges crime would reduce
00:09:18.560 dramatically and I got ideas for those guys I talked about earlier capital
00:09:24.100 goes where it's welcome Alberta would be open for business our city centers
00:09:28.900 would be vibrant again and our small towns would come back to life right no
00:09:38.420 more of Ottawa dictating what we can and cannot do you want to buy an EV I want
00:09:43.420 you to buy an evie please by all means go ahead you want to buy a diesel i hope you do because
00:09:47.440 somebody's going to have to pull the that ev in the winter time and we will because we're albertans
00:09:54.160 and we help one another right you want to buy solar panels i want you to buy solar panels
00:09:59.440 my tax dollars are not going to subsidize your solar panels the other thing that we could look
00:10:06.040 forward to is no more supply management we would actually have a free market we would have safe
00:10:13.300 streets we would have work-life balance we would have a solid future and
00:10:18.540 perhaps most importantly we would have schools that focus on giving our
00:10:23.060 children a real education rather than trying to turn them into little social
00:10:26.440 justice warriors and convincing them there's something or someone they're not
00:10:35.320 the list goes on we could go on all night about all the benefits that we
00:10:42.360 would have we know Canada is a sinking ship we don't have the votes to fix it
00:10:47.580 guys we don't and we don't have to go down with it Albertans have always been
00:10:53.640 trailblazers that's how we all got here it's in our bones it's what built this
00:10:57.060 province and so now it's time to blaze a trail of our own and it's time to become
00:11:02.280 the sovereign republic of Alberta.
00:11:06.060 Bless you all.