In this episode, we discuss the Alberta government's attempt to take over the affairs of the federal government, and the challenges they are facing in order to do so. We also discuss the recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling on the Clarity Act, and why Alberta should not be required to submit the question in advance to Ottawa for approval.
00:01:46.280The federal government did not like a lot of things the court said, so they put additional restrictions in through statute.
00:01:54.200So, for example, the federal government or the Supreme Court of Canada did not say, did not say that for a question to be valid, it has to be approved by the House of Commons.
00:02:05.400They just said it has to be a clear question.
00:02:08.260And so as soon as the Clarity Act was brought in, just so you know the legal hierarchy, if there's a conflict between the Supreme Court of Canada decision and the Clarity Act, the Supreme Court of Canada decision trumps.
00:02:17.820when the charity act was introduced in 2000 the quebec legislature passed a resolution i think it's
00:02:23.460bill 99 said you can't do this we're not listening to you we're following the supreme court of canada
00:02:30.860decision quebecers will decide our future you won't what you're saying is not legal and in fact
00:02:37.520i just saw a clip where um someone either some quebec politician stood up today and restated that
00:02:45.680That's where that last week, you would have saw the clip about the 51%. So that's where all that
00:02:50.300comes from. So the Clarity Act is a legal construct by the federal government that in many respects is
00:02:56.460unconstitutional because it's inconsistent with the Supreme Court of Canada decision,
00:03:00.180and it's attempt by Ottawa to get greater control. So it's my view that the Alberta government is
00:03:07.940not required to submit the question in advance to Ottawa for approval. If they did and Ottawa
00:03:14.440said no, to me that would be bad faith negotiating by the federal government. They're under positive
00:03:19.700legal duty to engage in good faith negotiations. So it seems to me that a proper step that is that
00:03:25.420Alberta at the appropriate time after the clear question, clear vote, should present the term
00:03:30.660sheet, tell Ottawa, come here, meet with us in two weeks or three weeks. Let's negotiate this out.
00:03:38.840Of course, Ottawa won't come and they'll bring legal challenges and they'll do all kinds of
00:03:42.980other things give them a reasonable amount of time again make the offer and then at some point
00:03:47.740you give them a deadline and you say if you don't approve you know either accept our proposed terms
00:03:53.560or counter offer us and let's reach an agreement failure of which failure of which in 30 days
00:04:00.180we the government of Alberta the people of Alberta will be exercising our right of self-determination
00:04:06.040and announcing a unilateral declaration of independence and then we'll be looking for
00:04:10.580international recognition. When the Supreme Court of Canada made its decision, they did not
00:04:15.300anticipate a Donald Trump. They did not anticipate that the Canadian government would decide to align
00:04:21.860itself with China and the Communist Party of China. They did not anticipate, I think, the
00:04:27.580geopolitical dynamics that we have today. We know that Prime Minister Carney in September of 2025
00:04:34.600took the bizarre step. I mean, I couldn't even breathe for like two minutes. My mouth was just
00:04:40.240wide open was when he refreshed the international doctrine of unilateral recognition by another
00:04:46.520nation state when he recognized the state of Palestine they don't even have to define border
00:04:50.900so he's really cleared the way for the Trump administration at the right time to recognize
00:04:55.880my understanding is there's at least 20 countries that are prepared to recognize Alberta as a nation
00:05:03.800state to recognize the right of self-determination of a free people to freeing itself from colonial
00:05:10.840oppression which is essentially what we have in ottawa in my view and what's so remarkable about
00:05:16.520our facts you know it's not like we we um our economy's tied to four different countries and
00:05:24.120it's 25 25 90 of our trade goes to the united states and it's just not any country they're
00:05:32.040not just struggling along it's the largest economy in the world like did we get a lottery ticket or
00:05:39.680what so they're going to recognize us the most important thing you know if we had trade disrupted
00:05:47.500to the united states scenario a and trade disrupted with ottawa which one's going to hurt us more
00:05:52.920so like you know and premier kenny was like what was he trying to say today uh that was the first
00:05:59.800time i heard that one because they own tmx they'll turn off the pipe and i'm like well we'll beat you
00:06:05.140to it there won't be oil and gas going into it and um and that's why i brought up what law he did
00:06:11.900whatever so um this is on its face complex but i really think at the end of the day it need not be
00:06:18.520we've got the cards we've got the third largest reserve of oil we've got the relationship with