The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 15, 2026


Liberal Judge shuts down Alberta Independence Referendum - CBC is Gleeful!


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A judge has struck down Alberta's attempt to hold a referendum on separation from the rest of Canada. What does that mean for First Nations people in the province? What does it mean for the future of the province as a sovereign state? Is this a good or bad thing?

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and welcome back to the National Telegraph YouTube channel.
00:00:06.360 We have a lot of right-wing and conservative political content creators here in Alberta,
00:00:11.800 and I count myself as one of the few who is in fact not in favor of Alberta independence.
00:00:18.200 But I was equally disgusted as the pro-independence people at the judge's decision yesterday
00:00:24.140 to shut down the independence referendum because it could violate the rights of First Nations
00:00:29.600 people in the province. Absurd for multiple reasons. It could violate their rights. Who
00:00:36.900 cares? What rights? And we're going to shut down things because it could. You could shut down
00:00:42.260 anything on that basis. And the second absurdity here is that First Nations people in Alberta 1.00
00:00:47.700 disproportionately support separatism. Now, some people are trying to say, well, that was taken
00:00:54.180 from a poll done by Rebel News. No, it was commissioned by an organization tied to Rebel
00:01:00.120 News, but the actual poll was done by Main Street Research. Now, that poll shows independents would
00:01:06.200 not actually win a referendum vote, which is another absurdity to the fact that all these
00:01:11.120 people are converging to try and shut down the referendum. It probably wouldn't even go through
00:01:15.200 anyways, but they won't even give people the chance to vote on it. But in a poll where only
00:01:20.500 about 30-35% of people would vote for separatism, you have like 45% of Indigenous people who would
00:01:27.120 vote for it. And that's a consequence of a lot of Indigenous people live in rural areas, and rural 0.60
00:01:32.320 people are disproportionately willing to support it, demonstrating that the vast majority of people
00:01:37.880 in the First Nations community don't walk around with like a race-based ideology. They're people
00:01:43.540 like everybody, and they have their own opinions, and many of them see merits in a separate Alberta.
00:01:49.560 You know, more power to all of them. And you guys may also know this about me. I'm the communications director for Dallas Brody in the BC legislature, as well as the communications director for the 1BC party in British Columbia. And we deal with this stuff all of the time.
00:02:05.880 So this frustrates me to no end, because we deal with this all day, every day, of DRIPA and First Nation consultations and land giveaways ruining everything in BC, and now they are trying to hold up a democratic referendum because it could violate some vague First Nation right.
00:02:27.060 I'm sorry, is Alberta separating inherently going to undermine the treaties? Probably not.
00:02:34.300 And by the way, the land is by definition ceded.
00:02:39.040 Now, I don't even think it matters if it's ceded or not.
00:02:41.880 I think if there's an independence movement in BC, if people said, well, this is unceded land, okay, whatever, bite me.
00:02:48.840 It doesn't really matter because people have now built entire cities on this land.
00:02:53.820 You having fished here 150 years ago kind of doesn't matter a hill of beans to this current situation. 0.98
00:03:00.560 Anyways, I'm ranting now, but it's just dumb. 1.00
00:03:03.620 The whole thing is dumb. We are going to go through some of the reporting and then Alberta Premier Daniel Smith responding to all this and all of the political hacks on the CBC trying to basically dance on the movement's grave as if, oh, they didn't realize that you can't just separate and violate First Nations people's rights. 0.97
00:03:22.220 What does that even mean, dude? Really? A band council doesn't like it. A tides funded First Nation chief doesn't like it. So now we can't do it. Oh, my goodness.
00:03:33.060 Anyways, but before we get into it, I just want to remind you guys, if you like the show, make sure to leave a like on this video.
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00:03:44.020 Leave a comment about what you think about all this.
00:03:46.900 If you were not pro-independence before, does this make you pro-independence?
00:03:51.080 Now, I'm not pro-independence, and I'm still not pro-independence.
00:03:54.540 I can see some of the merits on both sides.
00:03:56.680 I just sometimes think that it's exaggerated. The positive aspects of an Alberta independent,
00:04:02.900 you know, sovereign state is a little bit sometimes exaggerated, and it doesn't solve
00:04:06.660 as many problems as people think it does. But let me know if your opinion has evolved in any way.
00:04:12.040 And of course, you can always hit the join button below the video if you want to become a member of
00:04:16.480 the channel and be able to help me make this channel less reliant on the very obnoxious
00:04:21.220 YouTube algorithm. Anyways, so let's first get in to the CBC's reporting. They say up here,
00:04:29.000 judge overturns Election Alberta's approval of separation referendum petition. Let me just skip
00:04:34.240 the first paragraph here and jump to the relevant point. It says, the judge's decision puts the
00:04:39.240 future of Stay Free Alberta's independence petition, which the separatist group said
00:04:44.340 has garnered more than 300,000 names in question. In two decisions issued Wednesday,
00:04:51.220 Justice Shaina Leonard found that Election Alberta's chief electoral officer, Gordon McClure, made an error in law to approve the Second Citizens Initiative petition and failed to consider an earlier court decision that said separation would violate indigenous people's treaty rights.
00:05:10.200 Now, the first part, the first decision that she had made is basically saying, well, there is the, you know, I think it's something about whatever. It's like the pro-unity, pro-federalist petition that was going around. Oh, the guy from Elections Alberta can't issue a separate citizens petition when this other one on the same issue has already been issued.
00:05:31.700 It's like, well, what? I'm sorry, people putting forward a petition saying we should stay in Canada cuts off the independence petition? A petition that inherently doesn't do anything because it's not actionable, like if people vote no, it doesn't mean that you're going to leave.
00:05:50.560 It's just saying, oh, people disagreed with the idea that we should stay unified, but there's nothing saying that we should then move on and become a separate country.
00:05:57.440 So the judge is arguing that that petitions supersedes the current one, so the current one can't go through.
00:06:03.760 And then the even dumber reason why it can't go through is that First Nation rights are somehow vaguely at risk because of this.
00:06:12.740 Let's read down a little bit further.
00:06:14.060 it says leonard's conclusion says that there was an error of law quote rendering the chief
00:06:19.960 electoral officer's decision unreasonable unquote at an unrelated news conference
00:06:24.820 premier daniel smith spoke what her government's plan to appeal leonard's decision quote we think
00:06:31.260 that today's decision by the court will deny an opportunity to well over 300 000 albertans to
00:06:35.780 have their petition verified by elections alberta unquote smith said wednesday afternoon quote we
00:06:42.440 think that this decision is incorrect in law and anti-democratic and we will be appealing it as a
00:06:47.960 result our cabinet and caucus will off will off will of course be meeting in the next couple of
00:06:54.200 days to discuss the full context and make some decisions after we've had a chance to talk it
00:07:00.120 through leonard found that the government as representative as representative of the crown
00:07:05.480 failed in its duty to consult with applicants, Athabasca, Chippewa, Chippewa, First Nation,
00:07:13.340 Blood Tribe, Pecani Nation, Siksika First Nation, Chief Samuel Crowfoot of the Siksika First Nation
00:07:19.840 said, the ruling is a reminder that treaties are not historical documents, that they are, quote,
00:07:25.160 living constitutional agreements, unquote, between First Nations and the Crown. Okay, and so this
00:07:30.300 means that the crown can now never leave does this mean what can they rip up the treaties and
00:07:36.420 then just go forward and with the petition like what are you actually arguing here that you've
00:07:41.580 signed a treaty like over a hundred years ago and now you can never leave ever forever like
00:07:48.280 that doesn't make any sense i think there's a concept in law where if a contract cannot be
00:07:55.000 broken or ended, it's a bad contract. It's not legal if there's never any way of actually getting
00:08:01.560 out of a certain obligation. You cannot pay enough money. You cannot change the stipulations
00:08:09.720 to fall in line with a new reality. If the petition or the treaties don't allow you to do
00:08:15.880 that, then it's a dead treaty in the first place because it's just holding someone hostage and
00:08:20.980 requiring to give them money, land, and power in exchange for basically continued veto over
00:08:26.840 everything that happens in the province. So what did we sign if you still have ultimate authority
00:08:31.240 to stop stuff like this? Who knows? But now let's move on to some of these news conference clips.
00:08:38.160 Here is Daniel Smith speaking at a news conference yesterday where she talked about the Alberta
00:08:42.620 government's plan to appeal. Probably of Albertans who believe that should have been put to a
00:08:48.020 question as well, and the fact that the justice decided that there needed to be consultation.
00:08:56.060 It's unclear what that means exactly in the future.
00:08:59.020 What does it say about the fact that independence movements, or just a question of independence
00:09:04.520 movements in Canada, moving ahead?
00:09:08.280 Is Canada, I don't know, a prison that you can't get out of with any other means?
00:09:13.780 Well, you know, I guess we will have to talk with our Quebec counterparts to see what they think about this kind of ruling.
00:09:20.320 I would say that it is a single judge who's made a decision, and we have now 700,000 Albertans,
00:09:29.600 whether they're on the Remain side or the Leave side, who've said that they want to have this public debate.
00:09:34.540 So our citizen initiative petition was always meant to be very permissive,
00:09:40.080 And we kept on having to modify it to ensure that that permissive quality was in there.
00:09:46.320 We want to hear from Albertans.
00:09:47.540 That's what we think democracy is.
00:09:49.260 And we'll be meeting with our caucus and cabinet to further review the decision and decide next steps.
00:09:55.640 But as I say, since we believe that this one is incorrect in law and anti-democratic, we will be appealing it.
00:10:01.680 Thank you.
00:10:02.200 So I just want to move on from here.
00:10:03.860 This clip goes on for five minutes at the news conference.
00:10:06.320 But I want to get into the really awful commentary from the CBC.
00:10:10.080 but immediately off right off the bat there are so many people who are basically just trying to
00:10:16.840 dunk on the separatist movement because oh my goodness look their petition got thrown out the
00:10:21.480 referendum's over guys it would have failed anyways the support is not there for it but
00:10:28.280 these people can't stand people even voting on the issue and they're trying to anti-democratically
00:10:34.000 shut down any referendum from happening guys people if you like canada maybe make canada
00:10:43.120 less of an anti-democratic country and the alberta separatists won't hate it so much
00:10:47.940 just a thought but really what's going on here is that you have the left especially the alberta
00:10:54.140 ndp who want the petition shut down because they want to force danielle smith to be the one who
00:11:00.020 puts her thumb up or her thumb down on the petition because then they get to run against 0.97
00:11:05.020 separatist danielle smith even though she's just standing up for basic rules of democracy just 0.97
00:11:11.480 basic rules around petitions triggering referendums that people can vote on there's going to be someone 0.94
00:11:17.260 later on who says oh danielle smith got rid of the constitutional screen to stop questions like
00:11:22.480 this from coming through and the judge is now having to shut it down i'm sorry what how is this
00:11:27.640 violating the charter? How is this violating Canada's constitution? How? I'd love to know.
00:11:33.120 Oh, it's trying to break up the country. Oh, it's violating First Nation people's rights. 0.96
00:11:38.360 No, no, it's not. No, there's no force. Alberta's not in Canada by gunpoint. I'm sorry. I don't even
00:11:47.400 support the movement. At the same time, they have the right, if they had a majority of the vote,
00:11:52.480 they have a right to leave absolutely they do but none of these people can can like they can't
00:11:59.160 handle that so we have here a tim powers a former conservative strategist not a very good one
00:12:06.260 apparently here to talk about why this is you know smith is somehow bad there's a recklessness to
00:12:12.520 this that has the potential to cause some serious damage in this country at a time when we need to
00:12:20.500 be more united and focused i mean it is smith to her credit who has been arguing with her fellow
00:12:26.080 premiers you know let's let's stay focused on the united states let's try and get things done her
00:12:31.240 side trip to visit trump aside um the this is this is unsettling and let's not forget the obvious
00:12:39.420 fact that we all learned in uh in our civics classes the there's nothing democratic about
00:12:46.560 the judiciary. They're not elected, true, but they exist in our system to provide a check
00:12:54.520 and a balance in circumstances like this. So running down the judge and his decision
00:13:01.600 is not solving or addressing the problem here. I just find this really, really disheartening.
00:13:08.340 Yep. Shana, it's a woman. Shana, sorry. 1.00
00:13:10.560 I hate these kind of talking points.
00:13:14.940 Well, it was a decision by a judge, and I'm sorry you don't like the law, but it's what the judge said. 0.96
00:13:22.600 Screw you. I'm sorry. 0.82
00:13:25.380 The problem in Canada is our judiciary is packed with liberal and NDP activists.
00:13:31.540 The fact that the judge couldn't even describe what consultation is needed here proves that they just went in that morning to try and quash the entire thing.
00:13:40.560 Oh, well, they're saying it's anti-democratic, but this is the judiciary doing something
00:13:44.660 anti-democratic, and that means it's okay. I agree with the decision, and I'm talking in this
00:13:51.240 smarmy tone, which means I'm right. Right, guys? Right, David Cochran? Are you over there shining
00:13:59.240 your bald head like a bowling ball while I'm talking? Because that would be more useful than
00:14:04.340 anything he provides the panels, my goodness. Let's move on to the next person who talked
00:14:10.420 about this or someone else reacting to the the judge's decision the prime minister has a real
00:14:15.960 challenge because daniel smith clearly has no political incentive to get to a finish line when
00:14:20.460 it comes to conflict with ottawa and she has made a choice here to accelerate to ratchet up the
00:14:26.960 pressure um i think tim is exactly right that in that press conference the key word there was
00:14:32.640 undemocratic there's nothing undemocratic about the judge's decision yes it is sorry if a judge
00:14:38.960 just came out and just said you know what um white women can't vote anymore just specifically because 0.94
00:14:45.300 we don't want Jordan here to vote and it would just be better for us all just to not let any 1.00
00:14:49.880 white women vote because we don't want Jordan to vote and would that be okay because a judge said 0.80
00:14:54.500 it or do things actually need to make sense in this world or to be you know that's really it do 0.67
00:15:01.800 things need to actually make sense or not or is the fact a judge says it means it's right like
00:15:06.460 come on here, people. Daniel Smith is ratcheting up the pressure and the tension or whatever she
00:15:12.080 said. What are you talking about? No, no, she's letting a citizen's petition. In fact, two
00:15:19.100 citizens' petitions go forward. Now, the moron who runs the second one, the, I don't know, 0.99
00:15:25.460 it's like the whatever, Forever Canada one, Thomas Lukaszak, a former very hacky PCMLA in Alberta, 0.93
00:15:32.580 that guy is now even saying, oh, actually, I don't want my petition to go forward. No,
00:15:36.000 this is all good, mission accomplished, because his petition was only meant to prevent the other
00:15:40.200 petition from succeeding. But in doing so, he's proven 400,000 people who signed his petition
00:15:46.920 and 300,000 people who signed the separatist petition wouldn't mind going to a vote on all
00:15:52.120 this. So Daniel Smith is fully in her right to just say, I'm going to combine the two petitions
00:15:58.000 and I'm going to come up with a question that kind of meets it in the middle. Should Alberta
00:16:01.900 separate or should Alberta stay within a unified Canada? She could have that be the question and
00:16:07.840 it would be absolutely above board. It's not ratcheting up the pressure. It's standing up 0.97
00:16:11.860 for democracy, which evidently the CBC panel hates. She may not like it. She may wish to appeal
00:16:16.980 it. And that's well within her government's rights, but it's not undemocratic. And her choice
00:16:21.540 there is to run down the very system itself. And I think at the end of the day, Albertans have to
00:16:25.940 around and realize that what has what the outcome of this push on separation and sovereignty has
00:16:32.580 been so far is to destabilize the investment environment in the province dramatically
00:16:37.380 and now to put almost three million albertans personal information up on the open web that's 0.99
00:16:41.060 what the consequence has been so far oh my god that stupid thing from the centurion project yes 0.99
00:16:46.660 the idiots who run centurion project ended up getting a hold of an alberta electors list that 1.00
00:16:52.260 that they shouldn't have been able to get in a hold of. 1.00
00:16:55.600 They got it from probably the Republican Party of Alberta, 0.75
00:16:58.680 who are minor, who-gives-a-crap players in politics in Alberta.
00:17:02.680 David Parker and Cam Davies are not relevant actors in any of this. 0.99
00:17:07.420 They did something stupid, and potentially something that should get them fined. 0.85
00:17:11.760 What does that have to do with Mitch Sylvester? 1.00
00:17:14.640 What does that have to do with Corey Morgan?
00:17:17.160 What does that even have to do with Jeffrey Rath,
00:17:19.700 who I don't even particularly like, but he has nothing to do with leaking people's information.
00:17:24.120 But we're going to link that one bad actor group with everybody else. Because again,
00:17:30.140 the entire mission here is they're not even trying to kill the referendum. They know that
00:17:34.880 the referendum would not succeed. They are trying to destroy Danielle Smith's political career
00:17:39.400 by forcing her to stand up for the separatists, which she should, and then trying to smear her
00:17:46.320 as being a separatist herself. It's just disgusting what's going on. And it's extremely
00:17:51.180 transparent. Let's get over to the NDP leader, Nahid Nenshi's response to all this, who is no
00:17:58.420 doubt giddy over all this happening because everyone hates his guts. And this is the only
00:18:02.620 thing that he can hang his hat on. Oh, I'm the pro unity guy. Well, Daniel Smith's not pro
00:18:08.340 independence either. So technically you agree on all this. She's just in favor of democracy and
00:18:12.760 or not, but he's now going to use this as like the thing to boost himself. Oh, if you don't like
00:18:17.660 this petition going forward, you have to vote for the NDP. They can't market themselves on anything
00:18:22.500 else because nobody likes the NDP. Nobody likes Mr. Smarmy Nahid Nenshi as Premier. And so all
00:18:30.680 they can do is basically market themselves as like the pro-Canada party, even though the UCP
00:18:35.820 is pro-Canada too. So what's happened today? We've had a judge quash the Premier's separatist
00:18:42.220 Friends a referendum. First Nations fought for us. They fought for Canada. They continue to fight
00:18:48.660 for Alberta and for Canada in a way this government refuses to do. They spent a lot of time, they spent
00:18:55.640 a lot of money on these court challenges for a government that is at best indifferent to
00:19:03.040 Indigenous peoples and at worst actively working against their interests. I want to specifically
00:19:09.320 think isn't it just me or is it just funny that he's doing all this and saying all these things
00:19:15.980 about the ucp government while he flanks himself with two first nation mlas in his caucus can i
00:19:21.440 get the first nations people stand behind me for this one is throw one more behind me just so we
00:19:26.900 can pretend that this is not about like race can we get rank iraqi pacioli can you also sit back
00:19:33.440 there but i want the two first nations people to really lean in to the shot so i can seem as
00:19:39.200 caring for them as possible despite the fact first nations people disproportionately support
00:19:43.800 independence compared to other albertans the athabasca chippewan first nations my brothers
00:19:50.600 and sisters in the blackfoot confederacy and the sturgeon lake crea nation yeah it's his brothers
00:19:57.940 and sisters in the blackfoot confederacy all the others are just sturgeon first nations people i
00:20:03.280 hate when people use this like flowery language when they're talking about people that they
00:20:07.220 clearly don't have any actual relationship with for standing for all albertans for doing this
00:20:13.640 hard work it's been one of the great honors of my life to work with first nations over the last 15
00:20:19.440 years of my life especially in this last year you'd ask me a year ago would the thing that
00:20:25.740 unites all first nations be standing up in defense of the colonial government i probably wouldn't 0.99
00:20:32.940 have said yes what a piece of garbage even in the middle of pretending he cares about canada 0.97
00:20:39.860 he then calls it a colonial nation or colonial government or whatever he said there what was 0.99
00:20:45.800 that i want to get the exact wording like even in the midst of pretending he cares about the
00:20:50.640 country he has to attack it government standing up in defense of the colonial government i probably
00:20:56.540 wouldn't have said yes it's a colonial government oh i wouldn't have been able to guess that first
00:21:01.720 Nations would unify on this. They're not unified. Yes, you get certain people who are in ban
00:21:07.980 councils who support quashing the referendum, but that's not what the average First Nations
00:21:13.480 person thinks. It's a little more 50-50 in that community on what they support, which is far
00:21:18.780 more support for independence than pretty much any other community. I just find Nenshi nauseating.
00:21:25.820 The way he kind of lazily talks about how I, a year ago, would never have been able to guess that this province would be saved from Danielle Smith and her separatist friends by having to unify and support a colonial government.
00:21:49.380 Isn't that crazy?
00:21:51.260 Two First Nations people standing next to me. 1.00
00:21:53.480 Isn't that crazy, guys?
00:21:55.120 wow really it really it is and i know nobody has any reason to vote for me but i'm hoping that you
00:22:04.640 would substitute the ndp brand with canada just as people voted for mark carney because they didn't
00:22:12.540 like trump i'm hoping that you can vote for the ndp as a substitute for voting for canada
00:22:19.500 because there's no reason to vote NDP, others, and then something like that happening.
00:22:24.340 I love doing a Nenshi impression. He's just such a dweeb.
00:22:28.600 Anyways, we'll get back to this.
00:22:30.980 But if you'd asked me a year ago, would First Nations be leading the fight for a better Alberta and for a better Canada?
00:22:38.740 I always knew they would have.
00:22:40.680 And let's not forget how this government has treated Indigenous peoples,
00:22:46.700 and in particular, how they treated First Nations.
00:22:49.500 They left Indigenous Peoples out of this famous MOU.
00:22:52.960 So no matter what the Premier tries to take a victory lap on this week,
00:22:57.860 she does so in the shadow of every single First Nation in Alberta
00:23:02.700 for the first time in history, voting non-confidence in her government.
00:23:07.140 Wow, every single First Nations person?
00:23:10.020 Wow, that's crazy. 1.00
00:23:11.860 It really makes you sit back and think about all of the money
00:23:16.000 that the tides foundation paid for these chiefs to get on the steps of the alberta legislature
00:23:21.600 and wine like no first nations people are not anti-ucp government yes maybe they vote ndp maybe
00:23:29.100 they vote ucp depends on the person oh they voted unanimously non-confidence in this government
00:23:35.020 dude shut up eat another donut get out of here what are you like this is the guy who wants like
00:23:40.560 oh she didn't include first nations in the mou oh i'm sorry we didn't include a bunch of irrelevant 0.98
00:23:45.980 relevant ban governments in determining if we should build a pipeline or not. I'm sorry,
00:23:50.840 well, can we get the Hutterites involved too? We should get the Amish to sign a part of the,
00:23:55.760 have to be consulted as well. And then although, you know, probably Cantonese Albertans should
00:24:00.920 also be involved in consulting whether or not we should build a pipeline. How about we just
00:24:05.980 build a pipeline because it should be a free country where if a project, you know, if the
00:24:11.180 money exists for a project to be built you can do it without regulatory hurdles and just bans
00:24:17.500 preventing you from doing that how about we be a real country for once here anyways okay moving
00:24:23.540 on to another clip of some other person talking and trying to attack the referendum here is this
00:24:29.860 person who is apparently a constitutional lawyer i don't know what claw machine she got her
00:24:34.400 constitutional law degree from but here she is talking so i think you know there was there was
00:24:40.580 process that just came to an end with this court decision which was a citizen-led referendum this
00:24:45.460 was um something that was made possible and brought to us by um the the government of alberta
00:24:51.620 premier smith she bent over backwards to accommodate this happening by way of citizens
00:24:57.540 triggering an election she made it that you no longer needed 600 000 signatures but you only
00:25:02.020 need 178 000 which is which is perfectly democratic it's basically saying yes it's very logistically
00:25:09.700 difficult to get people to sign stuff like that so both for citizens recalls as well as referendums
00:25:16.660 they lowered the threshold because within 90 days or whatever the timeline is it is pretty difficult
00:25:22.620 to be able to contact 600,000 people who can physically sign a document 170,000 whatever it's
00:25:29.740 at now is far far more reasonable the idea that we're saying oh she's bending over backwards to 0.98
00:25:35.880 make this happen is just another smear on danielle smith six percent of the electorate then in
00:25:41.760 december we had a court ruling which said look this this this doesn't comply with the constitutional
00:25:46.720 screening mechanism on citizen-led referendum because it contravenes the treaties well what
00:25:51.100 did they do they turned around can this can she actually name what part of the treaties this
00:25:55.400 violates and took out that constitutional screening mechanism and so this whole petition was brought
00:26:00.600 to us by the government of alberta so the next steps are um we we anticipate the goalposts will
00:26:06.520 be moved again and that the premier will make an end run around this decision and call the
00:26:11.240 referendum herself um through a cabinet order so that's what we're preparing for here and and
00:26:16.600 that's what my clients are looking towards they're they're um i mean they're not surprised we've been
00:26:22.120 in this uh discussion for a year now it's just a question of you know moving to the next step i
00:26:28.360 I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Everyone, everyone's going to try and dunk on Daniel Smith for this
00:26:33.960 and try and say that she's now some sort of separatist. Here is a great little dig up that
00:26:39.340 somebody does. Ezra Vant ended up highlighting it. He said 300,000 people sign a petition for
00:26:45.240 a vote, but a reserve with 33 people on it gets a veto according to Trudeau appointed judge.
00:26:51.360 Oh, and their chief is literally an anti-oil, an anti-oil activist on foreign payroll source.
00:26:56.820 Here it says, this person who's named Proud Albertan says, this gets even worse. Chippewaian First Nation only has 463 registered and only 33 living on reservation, but has over $300 million of funds. What the actual F and the chief took $55,000 from Tides Foundation in 2014.
00:27:19.400 That's an incredible amount of money to just go to one man in a single year.
00:27:23.280 And it was to literally speak out against the oil and gas industry.
00:27:28.000 These are the people that Nenshi wants Danielle Smith to have had a consulting role on the MOU. 0.86
00:27:35.900 Absolutely insane.
00:27:36.920 And here's Thomas Lukasik on CTV News trying to run down the petition and basically stand by the court decision,
00:27:45.320 despite the fact that he had his own petition.
00:27:47.780 What did he not want his to go through either?
00:27:50.120 Well, this is not a surprise and shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.
00:27:53.660 This is not the first ruling.
00:27:55.100 Let's put this in perspective.
00:27:56.340 When separatists filed their petition, it was First Elections Alberta that said that their question may be unconstitutional and breaking First Nations treaties.
00:28:06.340 Then it was deferred to the Court of King's bench, and Justice Feasby ruled on it and said that it was unconstitutional and was breaking rules.
00:28:14.300 so premier danielle smith retroactively legislated a piece of legislation overwriting that decision
00:28:21.340 then on monday this past monday former supreme court of canada justice appeared before a
00:28:27.420 legislative committee indicating to them that the separatist question is unconstitutional and that
00:28:32.860 our forever canadian pro-canadian question should be voted on in the legislature
00:28:37.820 not in a referendum and they ignored that uh ruling and now again yesterday why would a
00:28:44.860 citizen's petition be voted on in the legislature and not at the actual ballot box why is this guy
00:28:51.740 not wanting his referendum to actually go to voters it's because he was never actually trying
00:28:56.860 to get the referendum in front of voters he was trying to block the separatist referendum by
00:29:01.340 putting up his own pro unity referendum it's all just so sleazy all of this is just again meant to
00:29:08.380 create a setup to hurt daniel smith effectively uh and here is i just want to get to one more
00:29:16.180 clip here and it's robert fife on cbc trying to again run down daniel smith because if you haven't
00:29:22.300 gotten the message yet this is all about just trying to hurt daniel they'll take over the ucp
00:29:26.580 they'll go in sign up they'll force her out and and they will take over a party that exists as a 0.99
00:29:31.120 more profitable vehicles.
00:29:32.920 Look, these guys talk a good game.
00:29:36.200 There may be 25% or 20% of that UPC party.
00:29:40.420 They can't take over the UPC party. 1.00
00:29:42.260 They can cause her a lot of problems, for sure, and they hire cars in a lot of problems. 0.94
00:29:47.000 But, you know, where's the Margaret Thatcher in Premier Daniel Smith?
00:29:51.780 We don't see it.
00:29:53.020 If she, she says she's an admirer of Margaret Thatcher, well, the Iron Lady would have just
00:29:57.680 told these people, get lost.
00:30:00.280 No.
00:30:01.120 it's always like nonsense like oh if she was a tough leader she would tell these people to go 0.66
00:30:05.800 kill themselves or whatever it's like no i'm sorry when did margaret thatcher stand up against
00:30:11.620 democracy and not let people have their petition if danielle smith lets this petition go through
00:30:18.680 in fact she will be more like margaret thatcher not less unlike what robert uh robert fife is
00:30:26.020 saying who needs to retire any day now that my goodness so many people when they become long in 0.78
00:30:32.140 the tooth as a commentator just start saying the dumbest things assuming that whatever they 0.89
00:30:36.580 that comes out of their face is inherently worth something because they've been around for a long 0.98
00:30:41.100 time yeah and you stopped thinking about 10 years ago and you just kind of do whatever now you know
00:30:46.780 nay saying whoever you don't like not actually putting any thought into your commentary simply
00:30:51.620 just attacking, implying anyone you don't like is bad and all that stuff. Anyways, with all that
00:30:58.020 being said, thank you guys for watching this probably slightly overlong video. No doubt I
00:31:03.300 will be covering this issue in the future as there is more evolutions to the story,
00:31:07.980 but this is all we have for now. Again, make sure to like the video, subscribe,
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