00:04:38.560She says, well, listen, if I hadn't gone to the white man's school
00:04:43.820and learned to read and write, I never would have been able to become a nurse.
00:04:49.140And your father would have grown up on reserve.
00:04:52.620And she said, Layton, illiterate boys on reserve
00:04:57.240don't have sons who grow up to be lawyers.
00:04:59.920so let's talk about let's talk about the situation of the Indian in Canada this is important because
00:05:11.920you know they call us the first nation but I find we're first in all the wrong things and
00:05:18.640we're last in all the good things here's a bit of a shopping list first of all we're last in
00:05:25.760life expectancy, last in household income, last in educational outcomes, last in
00:05:32.900government transparency including the ones on reserve, first in alcohol and
00:05:38.540drug abuse, first in prison population, first in homelessness, first in domestic
00:05:45.260abuse, first in abortion, first in suicide, first in fatherless homes,
00:05:51.200highest in violent crime, first in youth crime, first in child trafficking, first
00:05:58.280in gang membership, first in unemployment and most of all first in government
00:06:04.100dependency. Now I ask you is it any wonder that the situation of the Indian
00:06:12.020indigenous peoples in this country is so terrible? Of course it's a rhetorical
00:06:18.200question but you know let's let's talk about let's talk about specific cases some of you might have
00:06:25.240heard an ndp uh mp recently i won't say her name but she was complaining to uh mr carney that he
00:06:34.600was sending money to africa or ukraine or somewhere else and he wasn't spending enough money helping
00:06:43.080the cause of missing and endured indigenous indian women now i expect all you good people can agree
00:06:50.680the situation of missing and uh and murdered indigenous women in our country is a serious
00:06:57.960thing and that we should address it and if we can we should change it right can we agree on that
00:07:03.560but the NDP solution is let's throw more money at the problem well some of you may know this
00:07:14.300maybe you don't but did you know the government of Canada now spends more money trying to solve
00:07:21.080indigenous problems than it does on national defense okay and and listen have you been who's
00:07:30.800been to a first nations community recently okay so you know the once you get past the casino in
00:07:36.960the hotel what do you see you see poverty you don't see schools you don't see hospitals you
00:07:45.520don't see youth centers or swimming pools or all the other things that need to be there
00:07:51.440for a happy functioning community you see a blight a blight on the face of our country
00:07:57.840and and by the way this is true in alberta too and my message here today is that in a new free
00:08:04.000and independent alberta we can do this all better so talking about missing and murdered
00:08:18.080indigenous women let me explain to you how mr carney's government is addressing this problem
00:08:24.000Well, he says to judges in our country who are sentencing indigenous offenders, and if you are a violent indigenous offender, I hope that what I say right now offends you.
00:08:39.720Ninety-four percent of all violence committed against indigenous women is committed by indigenous men.
00:08:46.980okay so we've we've agreed missing and murdered indigenous women is a serious
00:08:53.880problem now we know who's doing almost all of that crime but what is the
00:09:00.180government of Canada telling our judges to do they say when you have a violent
00:09:06.960indigenous offender you have to give him a softer sentence based upon his race
00:09:13.980and his background circumstances so what's the result folks I'm sure you can
00:09:19.980do the math so that this is the cycle of abuse and this is just one example of
00:09:26.460the cycle of abuse in the dysfunctional relationship between that government in
00:09:31.620Ottawa and indigenous peoples in this country and what I would say to these
00:09:37.560chiefs who are pleading and going to court and trying to stop upper
00:09:41.680independence. Explain to me how this relationship is good for our people. Because I'm just a dumb
00:09:50.340country lawyer, but it goes way over my head. So here's what we do for missing and murdered
00:10:01.120indigenous women. We take the very people who are victimizing them. We not only make it easier and
00:10:09.080simpler for them to commit these crimes but we legalize drugs we turn a blind eye to things like
00:10:16.120human trafficking we do nothing to solve any of the problems that are causing indigenous men to
00:10:23.560harm indigenous women and so what do we have we have people locked in a cycle of violence and abuse
00:10:29.720and all the money goes God knows where.
00:10:37.600You know, it's not like we don't know better.
00:10:41.160I mean, the federal government spent money in 1996
00:10:44.380on a royal commission on Aboriginal peoples.
00:10:48.240And it talked about the problems of missing and murdering Indigenous women.
00:10:52.700It talked about the situation of Indigenous peoples in Indian residential schools.
00:10:59.720But let me finish off with this point so you understand the character of the man who's running our country.
00:11:07.320Mark Carney's father, Robert Carney, he actually penned a sharp critique of the conclusions of the Royal Commissioner of Aboriginal Peoples.
00:11:17.080He has actually spent a lifetime working within the residential school system in Canada,
00:11:21.720and so he understood the details of it intimately, perhaps better than anyone who was working in the government during that period.
00:11:29.720and he pointed out that the schools actually were not jails despite frequent claims that students
00:11:35.080there were against their will in fact parents like my great-grandfather had to sign an application
00:11:42.680form to enroll their children as in a residential school robert carney he bristled at the lack of
00:11:49.880context in the report noting that the schools performed a key social welfare function and
00:11:55.720caring for sick and dying abandoned and orphaned children so there's another side to the story
00:12:01.560but in the midst of the 2025 federal election campaign our mr carney mark carney was asked
00:12:07.480about this and he said hey do you agree with your father's take on this he says
00:12:13.960i love my father but i don't share those views
00:12:19.560so this is the quality of the human being we have running our country right now
00:12:24.200okay now I want to finish off on a brighter note so I'm going to tell you
00:12:31.820about a very important man from Saskatchewan whose name was Watini and
00:12:38.300William Watini he was an indigenous man born in 1928 and those single room log
00:12:44.360cabin on reserve in Saskatchewan just like my great-grandfather and like many
00:12:49.460kids growing up during the great depression he endured a childhood of poverty and hardship
00:12:55.940education was his release and he went on to become the first
00:12:59.140indigenous lawyer in western canada isn't that amazing
00:13:05.220he also served as the inaugural president of the national indian council in 1961
00:13:10.580he rose to prominence with his controversial book in 1971 entitled ruffled feathers if you haven't
00:13:17.700read that i highly recommend it what did his book call for an end to the canadian indian reserve
00:13:24.500system this is 55 years ago folks mr whatnot he knew what he was talking about he believed
00:13:33.220that the indian reserve system trapped his people in a never-ending cycle of poverty and despair
00:13:39.940He dreamed and fought for a nation where Indigenous people live alongside all other peoples,
00:13:48.860enjoying the same rights and privileges as everyone else in the country.
00:13:55.200What an inspiring vision for a new Alberta that is.
00:13:58.660sadly mr whatney he was actually ostracized for his views by his people in his own community
00:14:11.320even his own daughter who is a professor at a university in manitoba has disavowed him
00:14:18.220and he died in poverty in 2015 he should be he should be a national hero
00:14:42.760He rejected discrimination and identity politics and all its perverse forms.
00:14:47.080And yet, in dishonoring his life's work, his own daughter, now misrepresents his legacy by distorting the core truths of her father's central beliefs and conviction to truth.
00:15:00.600I want to close off by sharing with you, I think, a wonderful vision for Alberta independence, which applies to all Albertans, indigenous, non-indigenous, regardless of race, creed, color.
00:15:17.080It's from a man named Roger Scruton, who's a brilliant political philosopher and lawyer from Great Britain.
00:15:23.260Sadly, we lost him to cancer in 2017, but he left behind just an incredible legacy of books.
00:15:30.020You'll also find many of his talks and his speeches on YouTube, and I urge you to go and look at them.
00:15:34.760But he said this, and I want you to take this with you as a vision for a new Alberta.
00:15:42.260He says, we all have a capacity for love and a deep-down knowledge that a life without love is futile.
00:15:51.240We all have to work to find that love and to create the context in which it can flourish.
00:15:57.860Likewise with oikophilia, which is a Greek word, it means love of home.
00:16:03.920And this is where the political difficulties arise.
00:16:07.040oikophiles or Albertans are in search of a home and it is to the beauty and
00:16:15.800heritage of this home that they devote their efforts of conservation they are
00:16:24.260not globalists happy to be anywhere on the planet but the localists who look
00:16:29.720after the place that is theirs, that is ours. And it's this local focus that
00:16:40.160leads us to make the first and most necessary step towards sustainability
00:16:47.040which is to make out a territory and an identity that is our own, to be protected