The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - The Alberta Independence movement has to stop attacking normal Conservatives #cdnpoli #abpoli

00:00:00.000 As an Albertan that is not in favor of independence, can I give a small bit of advice

00:00:06.660 to those who are in favor of it? Do not do what Jeff Rath just did here. He works with the Alberta

00:00:15.020 Prosperity Project, and he is telling Federal Conservative Party supporters to stay home in

00:00:20.840 the Battle River Crowfoot riding because Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev opposes

00:00:27.260 separatism. What do you think he thought? He leads a Federal Conservative Party, and I guess because

00:00:35.160 he's running in Battle River Crowfoot, you thought he was then going to support Alberta separating

00:00:40.620 from Canada? It kind of goes against his job description as a Federal Conservative leader

00:00:45.620 to support provincial separatism in one of the provinces. Now, I suggest to people like Jeff

00:00:52.780 Rath, rather than sitting online and purity testing people and getting mad at politicians

00:00:58.380 who don't support what you support when it makes no sense for them to do it in the first place,

00:01:03.100 actually go out and doorknock in suburban areas of Calgary and Edmonton. If your independence

00:01:10.800 referendum is going to succeed, you need to be able to win the suburbs. If you can't do that,

00:01:16.780 you're not going to win. The independence movement is also plagued by way too much confirmation bias.

00:01:23.420 You go to a bunch of town halls where everyone agrees with you, everyone talks about how inevitable

00:01:28.140 separatism is, and then they just don't actually do the work. They get signatures for petitions and

00:01:35.100 whatnot from people who already agree with them, but if you can't win suburban areas of Calgary that the

00:01:41.060 UCP won, you are in trouble. You need 50% support in order to actually separate from Canada. And I

00:01:49.060 guarantee you, if you go in to some of the bluest areas of Calgary, plus 20 UCP polls, you will have

00:01:57.220 those people say they do not support separatism. So, rather than attacking Polyev and antagonizing

00:02:03.940 mainstream conservatives, you should convince those people why they should support what you support,

00:02:10.100 but instead we're just going to purity test. Because I guarantee you, Jeff Rath doesn't even

00:02:14.580 believe separatism is going to happen. He gets a lot of attention from this stuff,

00:02:18.660 and he is using it until it runs out. He is using up all the attention until the separatist

00:02:23.540 train runs out of fuel.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 15, 2025