The Critical Compass Podcast - March 26, 2026


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


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11 minutes

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1,717

Sentence count

66

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2

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Toxicity

1

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Summary

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Is it all about pipelines or is it about money and equalization? What's the difference between Eastern Canada and Western Canada? What are the benefits to the east of the country and what are the costs to the west?

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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 0.94
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. 0.53
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, 1.00
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. 0.92
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 0.66
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.