The Critical Compass Podcast - March 19, 2026


Leighton Grey - Alberta Independence Movement Forces us to Define Our Values

MartyUpNorth Exposes the TRUTH About Canvassing for Alberta Independence Independence Offers Indigenous Albertans an Incredible Opportunity ｜ Leighton Grey

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477

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of a shared vision of the future, the role of women in society, and what it means to be a good human being. We also talk about the benefits of a multi-ethnic society and the challenges we all face.

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00:00:00.000 so yeah the path forward is to have a like a shared positive vision of the future
00:00:06.580 yeah to adopt that personal responsibility to tell people that they are capable
00:00:11.580 and i think we're seeing that through independence is that it's grassroots based there's a lot of
00:00:17.580 people spending many many hours and all this hard work and you look at it's wonderful isn't it to
00:00:24.520 see yeah it's it's it's something that is inspiring on its own yeah and I I think it'll
00:00:32.160 continue to inspire yeah I totally agree with you and and uh I also think that um in terms of
00:00:39.720 broadly speaking in terms of the values that we would base our society on I think we can agree on
00:00:45.900 them by and large obviously we have to leave room for differences right because that those make us
00:00:52.260 better um we we what the one thing we've learned in north america uh is that multi-ethnic societies
00:01:00.180 really do work multi-ethnic ones you know where we take the best from different types of of cultures
00:01:06.740 um and and sort of blend them together uh we we that's that's been shown to work very very well
00:01:13.620 uh and i think um i i think you can make a very strong argument for saying that the success of
00:01:21.780 countries like Canada the United States could not have been achieved without them being multi-ethnic 1.00
00:01:28.020 societies uh you know all of us appreciate um different cultures you know um and and uh or we
00:01:36.420 should and respect them that doesn't mean all cultures are equal that's multiculturalism but
00:01:41.460 we can take the best parts from different cultures and I think we can agree we can agree to preserve
00:01:47.380 that. And we can also agree on some shared values that I think, you know, as you say,
00:01:57.520 Alberta independence is sort of, these are bubbling to the surface and people are seeing
00:02:02.360 them. And I think that's maybe the best thing about Alberta independence, even if it's not
00:02:08.480 successful in its first iteration, it still will have been a success because it got us thinking about
00:02:17.380 these things thinking about what is a good society what's important to us right what type of
00:02:23.540 communities do we want to live in you know what things will we accept what things are totally
00:02:29.000 objectionable and i think maybe the greatest thing that alberta independence movement is doing
00:02:34.160 is getting people thinking and talking about these things because for a long time let's face it maybe
00:02:40.740 we took we took these things for granted and when you take things for granted you tend to lose them
00:02:45.660 don't you is that not the ultimate expression of agency though yeah albertans getting together
00:02:52.080 saying that we can do this thing and we we want to take it under our own our own wing