The Critical Compass Podcast - November 27, 2025


＂Things ARE Going to Get WORSE if Alberta Stays in Canada＂ - Tim Hoven


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

164.43701

Word Count

590

Sentence Count

35


Summary

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When did you realize that Alberta would be better off as an independent country? Why do you think Alberta should leave Canada? What are your reasons for wanting to leave Canada and why do you believe it s a good idea?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 When did you realize that Alberta would be better off as an independent country?
00:00:08.720 I've always considered myself an Albertan before Canadian. That does not mean I've always been a
00:00:16.120 separatist. Is that the word we're using tonight?
00:00:19.500 I feel like independent supporter. I've been leaning towards that.
00:00:22.760 Independent supporter?
00:00:23.300 We've used a sovereigntist before that has just kind of more sophisticated connotation.
00:00:28.140 But it's really probably the last two years that really made me think if the people of Alberta choose
00:00:34.520 to stay in Canada, there will be no solutions to the problems we have. In fact, I believe things
00:00:40.640 are going to get worse if we stay in Canada. We've got the federal government pushing in there,
00:00:44.980 increased censorship. We've got the RCMP changing a rule that makes legal gun owners now criminals.
00:00:53.520 I made a list of questions. I put this on my sub stack and it was questions to ask over
00:01:00.080 Thanksgiving a month ago. Just if the conversation gets dull, just ask your Canadian supporter friend
00:01:07.880 these questions. And the first one was, do you support having your vote in Alberta be worth only
00:01:15.300 66% of what a vote in the Maritimes is worth? I asked, what do you think about Senate? Your vote,
00:01:23.780 your Senate seat here in Alberta is worth less than a Senate seat in Ontario, Quebec, or the Maritimes.
00:01:33.620 What about the Supreme Court? There are three Supreme Court justices from Ontario, three from Quebec,
00:01:39.860 and then three spread out the rest of the country. So do you have any pride, any dignity in your heart
00:01:47.220 to stand up for yourself and say, hey, at a bare minimum, my vote, my say should be equal to everyone
00:01:54.200 across this country. And right now it's not. And I don't believe there's a way to change that.
00:02:02.140 There's no benefit to the people of Ontario or Quebec or the Maritimes to give up any of the power
00:02:08.260 they have so we can take what's equally ours. The biggest problem we have right now for the
00:02:15.280 independence movement is that things are okay. Things are okay. You know, I can go to the grocery
00:02:21.500 store. I can get financing for the new car. I might not be able to afford a house, but you know, I'm sure
00:02:28.440 Carney will fix that in the future. Things are okay. And I look into the future and I think things are not
00:02:35.500 going to be okay. Every day we go farther down the same path, things are steadily going to get worse
00:02:42.000 and worse. I said, I've got, I've got eight kids. Well, for my sons to look at getting a good enough
00:02:47.980 job that they can afford to save a down payment so they can have a house by the time they're 40 is just
00:02:53.720 about impossible. And that's the same for millions of people across this country. And unless someone has
00:03:03.160 the courage to stand up and say, we need to change some of these things so that we can all have a
00:03:08.220 better future, things are just going to get worse. We have to choose either to have the courage to change
00:03:14.680 or just sit back home and watch Netflix until the end of the world. And I'm not comfortable sitting
00:03:21.360 back and watching Netflix. I've, I've got a lot of invested in my family, in my province, and we have to
00:03:29.580 act like the future is important to us. We actually have to care about the future. So we act on it.