The Critical Compass Podcast - May 09, 2025


Why a Conservative Coalition is Needed in Alberta ｜ Cameron Davies of the Alberta Republicans

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Robert Conquest
Rally for Alberta Independence - Highlights Cameron Davies： Republic of Alberta Will Have BETTER Port Access Than As a Province

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4 minutes

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602

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In this episode, I sit down with the founder and former Prime Minister of the Alberta Republican Party and former Conservative MP for the riding of Alberta s capital city of Edmonton, Doug Ford, to talk about his political philosophy and what it means to be a conservative politician in Canada.

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00:00:00.000 in canada we really haven't seen a successful party or movement for small government because
00:00:10.380 if you just put in a few more mlas or mps that hasn't changed and if you have the same engine
00:00:16.600 you're gonna have the same results in a way so then the question's like well can you adapt this
00:00:24.180 engine can you just what would it take to actually rewire things or sometimes do you have to start
00:00:31.820 fresh with something that's purpose built with the right checks and balances yeah and i think i think
00:00:38.880 you hit the nail on the head with with the system itself you you can't add a few clean drops of oil
00:00:45.100 to to a drum of dirty oil and expect it to change and that's and that's just the reality of it and
00:00:51.820 from time to time an oil flush is needed in this particular political context we have a system
00:00:58.660 where the local mla's voice has only exercised up to a point of tolerated
00:01:06.000 permission so you cannot voice your concern beyond what's permitted by the leadership
00:01:14.240 of a caucus or or of a party and so it's a system that really is is quite deeply flawed
00:01:21.800 when you when you look at other systems around the world 30 30 member nations of the commonwealth
00:01:27.400 have chosen a different system for a reason uh we we we operate in a in a really wonky
00:01:33.960 westminster system that's not fully a westminster system it's kind of a a bridged version of that and
00:01:41.040 so part of the the aspect of the alberta republican party now is we need a system change
00:01:46.820 we're advocating for independence we're advocating for separation from canada but with that comes
00:01:52.460 an advocacy campaign and a political campaign um that would completely revise and rewrite the system
00:01:59.780 with the will of albertans because we need checks and balances but until we get there
00:02:05.000 the only method of having a check and balance is by forcing a conservative government into a
00:02:12.940 coalition with a conservative party so that you have two conservative parties working in coalition
00:02:22.720 cooperation to ensure the ndp don't win but if either conservative party has their hand in the cookie jar
00:02:30.000 the whole house of cards comes tumbling down if either conservative party doesn't move forward
00:02:38.120 in a principled way and and reduce government get back on a principled fiscal path then they lose
00:02:46.060 government it's it's it's a guardrail it's a it's a safety release having two conservative parties in a
00:02:52.860 coalition yeah that's an interesting point it's um something you said earlier reminded me of of uh of a
00:03:00.660 couple quotes actually when you were mentioning how it just feels like no matter no matter how conservative
00:03:06.180 these parties campaign without opposition they just keep gradually sliding to the center there's um i
00:03:12.260 don't know if you're familiar with either of these guys but there's a um i just was hearing a podcast
00:03:17.400 i listened to uh they were mentioning this quote uh curtis yarvin is a uh a conservative political
00:03:22.140 commentator he has the quote uh cthulhu cthulhu may swim slowly but he always swims to the left
00:03:28.780 and uh and then there's a there's a man named uh robert conquest he's a uh was a british uh
00:03:35.700 uh historian novelist he had a great quote he said um any organization not explicitly right-wing
00:03:43.780 sooner or later becomes left-wing the simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic
00:03:49.140 organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies
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