The Shadoe Davis Show - Feb. 6th⧸2025- Special Guest Chris Scott Whistlestop Cafe, Mirror AB Should Alberta Separate？

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00:04:58.240 canadananosilver.com before we bring our guest on tonight chris scott from the whistle stop cafe

00:05:04.320 in mere alberta and a member of the alberta prosperity project we're going to talk

00:05:08.680 a lot about alberta tonight and what could happen by the end of the year by the end of the month

00:05:16.080 maybe in the next few years who knows but things are definitely changing one way or another and

00:05:23.040 it looks like alberta could possibly maybe this time decide to go on its own or maybe bring

00:05:33.520 saskatchewan part of bc and part of manitoba with who knows that the different configurations as i've

00:05:38.960 talked to you guys about in the past i don't think the lines are going to be staying the same on the

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00:06:46.340 Before we bring Chris on tonight, I want to play this video for you.

00:06:49.560 It's a clip from a video that Jordan Peterson dropped last night.

00:06:54.120 It's about 25 minutes, the entire thing.

00:06:56.060 You can see it on YouTube and Rumble and all the usual platforms.

00:06:58.760 But in this clip, he talks about Alberta and the power that Alberta has

00:07:05.560 that many Albertans don't even realize

00:07:07.920 and how they can get out of this ridiculous situation they find themselves in in Canada.

00:07:15.080 This is an op-ed that appeared today or yesterday, possibly, in the National Post.

00:07:21.240 Here it is.

00:07:21.900 The most American of all Canadian provinces, by widespread reputation and self-regard, Alberta is also the polity that Eastern Canada, particularly Quebec, relies on to survive while it pursues its disdainful socialist green agenda.

00:07:42.820 This is the Quebec that has whined and manipulated so effectively for so many decades that its minority bilingual citizenry utterly dominates not only the perennially ruling Liberal Party, but the federal bureaucracy.

00:07:58.680 that constitutes only two such unjust and unproductive advantages among many by the way

00:08:06.480 and all that despite the francophony strong and lasting separatist leanings this is the same

00:08:13.940 eastern canada and quebec that regards itself as entitled not only to the so-called transfer

00:08:20.280 payments characterizing the canadian social contract much to the disadvantage of the resource

00:08:26.280 rich West, but that simultaneously assumes and trumpets a moral superiority to the people who

00:08:34.300 earn that transferred money in a manner deeply reminiscent of that more generally assumed by

00:08:39.720 Canadians with respect to Americans. The consequence? No business case for the trade

00:08:47.720 deals or infrastructure projects necessary to supply a self-admittedly desperate Europe and

00:08:53.800 Japan with cheap and reliable Alberta energy. No new, plentiful and gratefully received pipelines

00:09:00.100 running west to east in Canada. Abject economic dependence. In consequence, for Albertans and

00:09:08.100 Canada itself, as we're now finding out, on the purchasing decisions of the mad mega Yanks to the

00:09:13.920 south. And now, that same Alberta is being called upon to sacrifice its artificially and morally

00:09:22.520 limited economy to fight off the looming tariffs of Donald J. Trump. The imposition of which should

00:09:29.700 come as no surprise to anyone the least bit awake. We walked right into this, folks, and boy, we

00:09:35.140 deserved it. But we felt good about ourselves all the way. And what is likely to result? Trump has

00:09:42.060 offered Canada status as the 51st state. If we had a well-constituted country, this would have never

00:09:49.720 happened, or the suggestion would have been laughable. I see damn few people laughing,

00:09:55.140 however, and more is the pity. A strong case can be made that such subordinate status would

00:10:00.840 not at all be a good deal for the Great White North as a whole. For Alberta, however, and perhaps

00:10:08.080 for the West as such, the situation is not so clear. Here's what I might do, given that if I

00:10:16.320 were in premier daniel smith's shoes or at least what i might threaten to do taking a page from

00:10:23.820 trump's art of the deal book because it's high time for the albertans to play hardball

00:10:28.920 i might travel say to mar-a-lago where i did in fact recently encounter that premier

00:10:34.700 i might have well there a forthright even blunt chat with donald jay where i might say to him

00:10:42.140 something like the following. Mr. President, my fellow Canadians have for decades compelled us

00:10:51.160 to climb into bed with an 800-pound gorilla. That would be you, Mr. Trump. Now you've decided to

00:10:59.380 consummate the deal, so to speak, and we've given you the upper hand on a silver platter,

00:11:04.720 to mix metaphors terribly, while you're doing so. Canada is unlikely to become the 51st state,

00:11:11.480 however, not even Alberta, as you may well know, sir. After all, you'd have to offer us something

00:11:18.300 better than what has been put forward by our fellow Canadians. That would be the continued

00:11:23.680 privilege and expense of subsidizing Quebec, half of whose citizens consistently clamor to secede

00:11:32.060 from the country while we impoverish ourselves for their benefit. The constant imposition of

00:11:38.040 serious practical impediments from the federal and other provincial governments, hint, hint,

00:11:43.540 British Columbia, to the international business deals and pipelines that would help Alberta bring

00:11:48.820 its resources to market. Continual insult on top of such injury in the form of unbearable and naive

00:11:57.020 moralizing about their superiority in conviction with regard to the sustainability of the planet.

00:12:03.420 And to top it all off, the accusation that I, Daniel Smith, am not patriotic enough to start a trade war with my strange bedfellow in the name of a country whose very leaders proclaim both identitylessness and a multiculturalism that none of my citizens want.

00:12:24.340 And Trump might well say, or perhaps is even saying right now, I think I could top that offer, Ms. Premier, fine as it is.

00:12:36.020 I could offer Albertans the American dollar, full access to our markets for their resources at full international price, lower costs on almost all manufactured goods and on food, lower taxes, both corporate and personal.

00:12:52.580 membership in a country that prides itself on being a country and that does not plan to dissolve

00:12:59.940 itself into an unstable multicultural mishmash genuine admiration for your economic and industrial

00:13:07.100 endeavors along with a can-do visionary and deeply entrepreneurial culture immediate reliable and

00:13:14.820 guaranteed access to ports and pipelines and full military defense and if that's not enough dear

00:13:22.220 lady no transfer payments and the additional psychological advantage for albertans in foregoing

00:13:29.020 the perpetual and bullying eastern canadian attitude of grievance and moral superiority

00:13:35.100 the subject of pipelines has come up again in the last couple of days because of these trump

00:13:44.000 tariffs that almost hit us this past tuesday we want to make ourselves less reliant on trade with

00:13:50.360 the United States where we do 80% of it. We want to be able to get more of our energy to market

00:13:55.880 to other countries, so we have to get it to the ports. But Quebec has been fiercely opposed to

00:14:04.300 any kind of pipeline running through their territory for years now. Just today, here is

00:14:10.320 the leader of the Bloc Quebecois, Yves-Francois Blanchette, speaking in French to reporters in

00:14:16.960 Montreal fiercely opposed to any type of transport on Quebec territory this is

00:14:23.600 obviously a translator hydrocarbons from Western Canada to any market

00:14:28.120 whatsoever it does not serve Quebec it does not serve the environment it does

00:14:32.740 not serve the planet see it's a mirage that we are always being told the LNG

00:14:39.800 zombie that was never really alive that we reanimate as a kind of slogan the

00:14:46.800 a pro-hydrocarbon speech that even Mr. Kearney is starting to hold as if there were a future

00:14:52.400 in Western Canadian hydrocarbons, the sacrifice of interests and green energies that make

00:14:57.880 Quebec rich and that are a contribution to environmental issues which are suddenly being

00:15:02.220 pushed aside from the public debate to say, you know, we are in crisis. What a great opportunity

00:15:08.380 to bypass Quebec considerations and ecological considerations to unroll a pipe to the Atlantic.

00:15:14.460 Yves-Francois Blanchet, the leader of the Bloc Québécois.

00:15:19.460 Here's Chris Scott from the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror, Alberta.

00:15:22.460 Chris, is your blood boiling after hearing that?

00:15:25.460 Meh, I'm kind of used to it.

00:15:28.460 Welcome to the show, my friend. I was just checking earlier.

00:15:31.460 It's been just over a year since you were last on. What's new?

00:15:35.460 Well, I'm trying to find out by reading The Economist, The World Ahead 2025.

00:15:42.460 um and as you probably know it's a very very left-leaning publication like really left-leaning

00:15:50.540 as a matter of fact in the section united states there's a picture of donald trump

00:15:54.600 and the first caption is the sequel is usually worse

00:15:58.440 now i i don't know what you've been seeing in the last how long has trump been president again like

00:16:08.000 six months or something no a couple of weeks a couple of weeks yeah uh the future looks pretty

00:16:13.100 bright honestly i think this year is going to be absolutely fantastic so this 51st state thing that

00:16:20.280 he's been holding up for the last few weeks few months even now and talking about wayne gretzky

00:16:26.120 being the prime minister and premier sorry governor trudeau and all of that stuff what's

00:16:30.300 your take on all of that well uh i'll answer with a with a prop so i bought some wine yesterday

00:16:40.040 and when i went to the wine store i bypassed every country's wine except for the usa

00:16:48.180 and i did that because i tend to go against the grain and we have this ridiculous shiny new thing

00:16:55.800 right now which is oh by canadian by canadian but as an albertan uh every time i see that slogan

00:17:03.940 it actually makes me laugh out loud you know and now we have so we have the president of the most

00:17:13.060 powerful country in the world the biggest economy our best friend and neighbor uh offering

00:17:21.300 statehood to our entire country. And I got to say, when I first heard him utter those words,

00:17:30.280 I was rolling with laughter. Like I thought it was the best possible way to troll Justin Trudeau

00:17:36.400 that anybody could ever do. And Trump pulled it off just beautifully. But then when you get past

00:17:42.880 the you know the utter ridiculousness of it you start to realize it's not that ridiculous

00:17:50.400 it really isn't uh we share the same values the same culture for the most part i mean canadians

00:17:57.780 hate themselves more than americans do that's for sure you know we're being taught to diminish

00:18:02.980 and demean ourselves in the last 20 years or so but uh yeah i haven't heard a solid argument

00:18:11.000 as to why we should not want to be part of the united states well chris we're canadians

00:18:18.360 sure that's really the only argument i've heard i've heard a lot of booing at hockey games in

00:18:23.940 the past few days notably ottawa edmonton they're all fools they're all definitely fools they don't

00:18:29.060 seem to understand they're falling for trudeau's magic here that it's team canada and we're going

00:18:34.700 to stand up i mean could you even believe that some canadians had been falling for that crap

00:18:40.460 crap i mean you've got mark carney saying we will never roll over and trudeau saying the same thing

00:18:47.260 and doug ford saying matter of fact all of the premiers on this so-called team canada were

00:18:52.220 kind of saying it to a lesser extent i would say scott moe in saskatchewan and definitely not

00:18:56.920 danielle smith in alberta who's been vilified by team trudeau and the rest of them for standing up

00:19:03.860 for energy and standing up for alberta what's the mood in alberta about all of this that you can

00:19:10.360 discern well in my circles we're like we're giddy we're totally looking forward to whatever the

00:19:18.160 future holds for this province because finally it feels like something is going to happen and

00:19:25.700 something has to happen um you know you you mentioned earlier you said but we're canadian

00:19:32.480 and I would reply with what does that mean what does it mean that we're Canadian does it mean

00:19:38.660 that we're we have rights and freedoms guaranteed by the charter and the constitution and we're

00:19:42.720 protected from government by separation of different governments powers well I can tell

00:19:47.460 you firsthand that's not the case you know I ended up in the middle of that triangle and it

00:19:51.540 cost $350,000 to get out so what does it mean to be Canadian Canadian is a set of values and Trudeau

00:20:01.100 says we don't have any values we don't have an identity we're we're going to be the first post

00:20:05.560 nation state and actually now now that i said the words that's interesting that he said state

00:20:10.460 but probably wasn't thinking about actually not but he first said it back in 2015 or 2016 or

00:20:17.480 whenever it was that's right that really made you think like do we not have an identity what

00:20:22.460 is the identity of canadians what is it about being canadian that i love i got a little canada

00:20:27.760 kicks ass stick man tattooed on my shoulder because i i love being canadian but i think

00:20:33.660 i love what canada i love the idea of canada what it's supposed to be it's supposed to be the

00:20:40.100 freest most prosperous place on the planet and we are not we are not anymore uh we've fallen in

00:20:47.640 almost every metric to do with prosperity quality of life income all of those things we plummeted

00:20:53.520 under the Trudeau government. This isn't anything new, like what we're seeing, but from the federal

00:20:58.840 government and the premier of Quebec and, and what's his pickle that you just had on there

00:21:03.020 talking about Alberta, this has been going on since 1905. Nothing has changed. And I think now

00:21:10.980 we're at a position where in Alberta, you know, in the early eighties, we had Elmer Knutson out here

00:21:15.540 and, and, and Christie, they, they wanted a Western federation. Christie wanted an independent

00:21:22.180 in Alberta. Knutson wanted the West Fed, a confederation of the Western provinces. That

00:21:27.380 didn't work out. And then the next major thing was, you know, when Brian Mulroney cancelled the

00:21:32.960 NEP and it was the golden era again, everything was getting better and it still didn't benefit

00:21:37.620 Alberta the way it should have. And then we had Preston Manning with this revival of, you know,

00:21:43.980 Canadian Christian values brought mainstream and almost made government with the slogan,

00:21:49.160 the west wants in that didn't work and then we have cory morgan in the early 90s uh with his uh

00:21:55.040 you know the alberta independence party back then which gained a lot of traction because of what was

00:21:59.780 going on in the country and kind of fizzled out so we've been through these things so many times

00:22:05.540 we've we've failed at different things and i think now with what the alberta prosperity project is

00:22:10.360 doing with trump pulling and justin trudeau pushing and quebec pushing we have a chance we

00:22:16.680 have a chance to be free and prosperous in this province for sure. So what would be involved in

00:22:20.720 that? I know you've got a roadmap on the website of the albertaprosperityproject.com. What does

00:22:25.880 this look like? Does it look like a redrawing of boundaries? Is it a municipal thing? Do you go

00:22:30.480 from municipality to municipality talking to people and telling them, look, or asking them,

00:22:35.940 what are we getting out of Canada? And what kind of feedback do you get? Do you need a big,

00:22:41.440 huge marketing campaign in the in the big cities exactly how does this roll out i mean i know that

00:22:47.500 you guys have got interest and have had interest but might be time now to try to start capitalizing

00:22:53.760 on that and even get yourselves a vote yeah so what it looks like um i should first point out

00:23:00.440 that this isn't this isn't something new at all like this has happened many times um over over

00:23:06.440 the course of history dude you know my dad used to wear a baseball hat with the republic of western

00:23:11.660 canada on the top of it back in the 70s and 80s i i remember believe me well this the sentiment

00:23:17.600 1911 was the great canadian uh um milch cow do you remember that cartoon where the east is milking

00:23:25.060 the cow and alberta is feeding it that that was in 1911 it's it's pretty much the same but what

00:23:31.420 i'm referring to is other places in the world that have declared independence and decided hey

00:23:36.020 we're culturally distinct our values are different we want to do our own thing

00:23:39.420 let's be friends but we're not going to be governed by you

00:23:42.220 Kosovo is a great example because uh when Kosovo actually unilaterally

00:23:47.240 declared independence but it was a it was a emotional

00:23:50.880 revivalist thing that happened across society because of the way

00:23:56.040 they felt about their situation uh and there was only one country that

00:24:00.320 one country that stood up right away and acknowledged Kosovo as an

00:24:03.860 independent nation. And that was Canada. So even Canada and Canadians respect the idea that maybe

00:24:11.240 sometimes the relationship isn't good and someone needs to get out. We have the Czechoslovakia is

00:24:16.240 the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We have some European countries that were at one point under

00:24:22.020 the same flag, and they just peacefully decided, hey, we're not going to do that. And it's not a

00:24:26.180 complicated thing. In our case, our constitution, like the Supreme Law of Canada, outlines it.

00:24:32.920 it outlines how a province could secede from confederation uh it's not a easy process you

00:24:40.160 you mentioned marketing it's a massive education campaign and i say education campaign because

00:24:47.060 with the alberta prosperity project uh it's always been about freedom and prosperity through

00:24:52.120 independence we would have town halls meetings like sometimes there was thousands of people

00:24:57.640 packed in a building where we would be speaking about alberta independence in the beginning i

00:25:01.440 would, I would ask people, you know, raise your hand if you believe in an independent, sovereign

00:25:05.900 Alberta. And sometimes, you know, half the room put up their hands, sometimes 60%, whatever.

00:25:11.160 At the end, when we finished delivering our, our speeches, I'd ask the same question. And it's like

00:25:16.940 a hundred percent conversion rate. So once people are educated as to the truth around Alberta

00:25:22.920 independence, the reality of how we can accomplish it and what it looks like after it's a complete

00:25:28.820 no-brainer it's it's even less of a no-brainer than it is if you ask people under the current

00:25:35.260 terms that albertasin would you join if that's what you were offered and the answer is for sure

00:25:40.280 no right so yeah education campaign how much money has alberta given to uh the government

00:25:47.720 so they can give it to quebec in the last 10 years i'm not sure if you'd have a number like

00:25:51.360 that in your head but it must be a bit because quebec got what this past year in uh equalization

00:25:57.920 payments like 13 14 billion dollars yeah so alberta has contributed uh roughly 700 billion

00:26:05.000 dollars since equalization for which we've never got anything back now i do want to point something

00:26:09.800 out though in the 1960s alberta was really struggling we went through some tough times

00:26:15.860 not many people know this uh quebec actually had a special tax to help alberta so quebecers

00:26:22.180 our francophone brothers and sisters over there who their politicians are idiots and they're

00:26:26.740 speaking out against us uh they love us and they they paid a tax specifically to help the people

00:26:32.780 of alberta so um they they have stood up for us before but not to the tune of 700 billion dollars

00:26:37.700 so if alberta were to stay in canada you would have to you would have to get some pipelines

00:26:45.680 built you would have to you know go through bc you would have to go all across canada get a pipeline

00:26:51.300 through ontario and quebec and whatnot but how how do you do that i mean i was talking on the

00:26:56.300 show last night about the fact that pipelines are a federal responsibility according to the

00:27:00.840 constitution and even with that in the last few years the legal opinion has somehow changed where

00:27:08.100 it's more of a provincial federal partnership even though nobody has ever really come out and said

00:27:14.040 that no judge has ever said that it just seems to be that that's the way the legal consensus is gone

00:27:19.060 so could you send a contingent to quebec and say hey look you guys you know there's you've already

00:27:24.760 got pipelines in the ground it's not so bad facts don't matter unfortunately to the crowd that we're

00:27:32.600 speaking to when it comes to environmental concerns over pipelines the facts are i mean

00:27:38.920 they the truth stands completely separate from what the narrative is around these things um we're

00:27:46.840 fighting a feeling that oil is bad all oil is bad and we need to stop it when in fact the exact

00:27:54.060 The exact opposite is true. Oil and gas have been the single largest contributor to prosperity, quality of life, length of life, amount of free time, innovation, everything all across human history. The metrics just skyrocket when we start using that stuff. And yes, there are some downsides. We've had some steep learning curves with it, but we've been getting better and better and better using our oil and gas all the time.

00:28:19.540 So to get it done, right now within the structure we're in within Canada, the federal government has engaged in some serious tomfoolery in order to claim that they are responsible for pipelines because they're responsible for environment, right?

00:28:41.340 Now, some people hear the word pipeline and they're like, oh my goodness, you're going to build this pipeline and you're going to spray oil all over the place.

00:28:48.120 well no that stuff's expensive we want to keep it in the pipeline and sell it that's not what's

00:28:52.900 going to happen and and the provinces have sovereign jurisdiction over extraction and

00:28:59.300 sale of their resources pipelines are really the only logical way to do that for oil and gas but

00:29:06.860 the federal government has stepped in and said well we're about the environment so now we get

00:29:11.220 to be partners with you on this right so we're we are policy locked we're policy locked in this

00:29:17.600 province and Saskatchewan and yeah well Alberta and Saskatchewan pretty much if we were independent

00:29:24.140 an independent sovereign nation of Alberta all of the sudden we have a few things going for this

00:29:29.860 for us we have the ability to negotiate our own trade deals and we have some very very good

00:29:35.120 negotiators one of them is Daniel Smith she's like none of the other premiers even our prime

00:29:40.460 minister come close to the way that that woman negotiates she's amazing and I'm not a real big

00:29:47.420 fan of the UN, but even under UN international law, no country, a landlocked country has a legal

00:29:57.020 right to get their product to Tidewater. So we would be in a much better negotiating position

00:30:06.140 to get those things done as an independent nation. Or maybe, I mean, they're working on

00:30:12.280 this port up in northern Manitoba. I think the federal and provincial government here just

00:30:17.000 dumped another 50 million into it to make that port of churchill a 12 month a year going concern

00:30:23.480 which could export oil and gas natural gas whatever to all points on the planet in january as well as

00:30:30.820 july and it's supposed to be up and running in the next couple of years which would be interesting

00:30:35.840 so when we talk about it's interesting when we talk about alberta independence are we talking

00:30:40.600 about just alberta the way you see it now or are you moving into saskatchewan manitoba bc interior

00:30:48.760 because i don't see the lines on the map staying the same way chris not in the next year or two

00:30:53.720 years something is going to change as you point out earlier in a perfect world you would have

00:31:00.680 nations of people that shared the same ethics and values and if you look at the entirety of north

00:31:07.880 America, uh, I'm actually, I hope CSIS isn't listening. If you draw a diagonal line right

00:31:16.360 across North America, I mean, it's pretty much Northern BC, Alaska, Alberta, Saskatchewan,

00:31:21.780 the Midwest United States down into central Mexico. Um, those are the people that, well,

00:31:29.940 it's, it's true. And that's where the diagonal on thing came from. It's like,

00:31:33.080 these are the people that share all the hardworking values and we want to prosper and

00:31:36.460 we love energy and and we we uh we have faith in these types of things the people on the outside

00:31:42.200 near the ocean they got water on the brain or something and they're all nuts so why don't we

00:31:45.880 just have this um the the problem is there is no mechanism by which a number of provinces can just

00:31:55.620 say hey we're going to become a country that that doesn't work the way our confederation works is

00:32:00.740 that each province has sovereign decision making for those types of things so it would have to be

00:32:09.020 that one province stood up and said hey we're not going to do this anymore negotiate a better deal

00:32:13.840 or we're out and then i i have a feeling that would give confidence to other provinces to do

00:32:20.320 the same and then afterwards you could have talks about whether or not you wanted to have some sort

00:32:26.880 of a union or federation or confederation or something like that. You mentioned Daniel Smith

00:32:30.920 earlier as being a great negotiator. I would tend to agree. I think she's probably responsible for

00:32:35.780 the tariffs being delayed. And I think she was probably responsible for the lower tariff on oil

00:32:40.900 and gas energy than the rest of the products that were going to be tariff 25%. I'm not sure if you've

00:32:47.140 had a chance to speak with her or any of the people from the Alberta Prosperity Project about

00:32:52.140 this but she did mention in a left-wing corporate media interview i think it was on ctv with what's

00:32:59.140 her name vashi whatever that she said i can't remember her last name she said um that if this

00:33:07.480 continues the way it's going right now and she was specifically talking about team trudeau team

00:33:13.220 canada and all of these people who fell for that nonsense and were booing the u.s national anthem

00:33:18.380 at hockey games she said that we could be facing a national unity crisis and this time it had

00:33:25.920 nothing to do with quebec is is that true that do you think that she was just rattling a saber there

00:33:32.980 or is the mood in alberta starting to shift that way finally because i know it's been a stop and

00:33:40.100 start thing ever since you know alberta first started started talking about the idea of

00:33:44.500 separation, but is it finally gaining momentum or is it just a pipe dream? It is gaining momentum

00:33:52.520 and it's because we are bracing for a national unity crisis. As a matter of fact, we're already

00:33:59.600 in a national unity crisis. People just don't know it yet. Alberta, we over contribute by $3

00:34:06.380 billion a year for the CPP, $1.5 billion a year for employment insurance. We send $27 billion

00:34:12.880 dollars east for which we don't get anything back. The federal government collects taxes on our

00:34:17.000 behalf and then uses those taxes as a carrot or a stick to make us do what they want. Do you

00:34:21.680 remember the, hey Alberta, we'll give you this money for building homes. As long as you have a

00:34:27.840 federal health pass and tell us about all your citizens' health information, right? We already

00:34:32.520 have a national unity crisis. We have people saying Team Canada and waving flags and three,

00:34:38.100 four what is it three years ago if you waved a flag they called you a terrorist if you're from

00:34:42.980 the west yeah um we have people saying team canada oh buy tim hortons even though tim hortons is a

00:34:50.540 half u.s company but they didn't scream team canada when alberta was being thrown under the

00:34:55.760 bus either with the national energy policy in the early 80s or more recently when the when the

00:35:02.420 prime minister was talking about using alberta exports as a bargaining stick with donald trump

00:35:07.640 like there there is no team canada we're in the middle of a national unity crisis alberta produces

00:35:13.480 an insane amount of energy quebec and quebec produces an insane amount of energy through

00:35:18.980 hydroelectric dams they also sit on one of the largest gas reserves in north america and could

00:35:24.820 be completely an energy superpower if they would just that like that fool that was on the video

00:35:30.760 if he would just get rid of his ideology and get back to reality and drill baby drill

00:35:34.860 that country would be filthy stinking rich and they wouldn't have anything to worry about they

00:35:39.200 wouldn't have to worry about not having propane and freezing like happened a couple years ago

00:35:43.120 you know so the whole idea that we might be in a national unity crisis no the national unity

00:35:49.680 crisis may get worse but we're already in one for sure so what could what could propel

00:35:57.960 alberta separation i mean as it is right now you say maybe it's gaining some momentum and people

00:36:03.280 are really starting to mumble a bit more about it,

00:36:06.060 maybe in coffee shops across the province.

00:36:09.140 But let's just say,

00:36:10.620 because we've been looking at the polls lately,

00:36:12.420 and I'm going to take ECOS completely out of the equation

00:36:15.100 because ECOS is run by that guy

00:36:17.340 who just hates Pierre Polyev, hates the Conservatives.

00:36:20.140 I forget his name, Frank something or other.

00:36:22.340 But we'll throw the Main Street polling in there

00:36:24.840 that shows suddenly the Liberal Party

00:36:26.980 leading the Conservatives, at least in Ontario,

00:36:29.600 and still far behind in the rest of the country,

00:36:31.560 the Maritimes in the West and whatnot.

00:36:33.820 But let's just say that when this election finally comes

00:36:36.980 and the Liberals somehow manage to pull off a minority government with Mark Carney,

00:36:42.960 and I realize how far-fetched that sounds, but you never know what's going to happen.

00:36:47.060 Could that be the linchpin that makes Alberta fight?

00:36:49.640 Because Carney's plan is worse than Trudeau's ever was.

00:36:52.840 I've been listening to this guy for the past couple of weeks, and he is downright dangerous.

00:36:56.160 He's insane.

00:36:56.660 It's frightening. He's crazy.

00:36:58.000 He wants to put on carbon tariffs permanent when he gets rid of the carbon tax.

00:37:02.580 He was just talking about that yesterday or today.

00:37:05.020 But let's just say he wins.

00:37:07.840 Do the people of Alberta then go, we got to get out of here?

00:37:10.620 Would that be a good impetus to really get some momentum going?

00:37:14.660 Of course. Absolutely.

00:37:16.600 And the problem with democracy, especially like a democracy like what Canada has,

00:37:22.820 is if one group can fool the majority they win have you ever heard the story it's it's not an

00:37:32.320 actual story it wasn't joseph stalin did this but there's a story the story goes joseph stalin was

00:37:36.600 speaking to a group of uh aristocrats and explaining how he they wanted to move things

00:37:41.600 forward and one of them asked him well how how is this going to work the people they're going to

00:37:48.320 hate us they're scared of us we've been we've been tyrannizing them for years and joseph's down

00:37:53.260 grabbed a chicken and he pulls out a bunch of feathers and he's beating this thing up he's

00:37:57.460 choking the chicken and he throws it down on the floor and the chicken runs away from him

00:38:01.580 and he says watch he takes some grain out of his pocket and he throws at his feet chicken comes

00:38:06.660 right back and eats it again that's not much different than voters i mean the mark carney and

00:38:13.240 those ideological fools are talking about CERB 2.0, giving universal basic income, printing more

00:38:24.400 money, further deflating our economy and destabilizing our country. And people, they ignore

00:38:32.580 the consequence to that action and they just see, oh, I'm going to get $2,000 a month. I'm going to

00:38:36.880 vote for these guys. Oh, weed's going to be legal. Oh, I'm going to vote for this guy, right?

00:38:41.340 this is the world we live in so i don't think that the liberal government is going to make

00:38:46.920 any kind of government i think they're going to be wiped right off the map and i hope they lose

00:38:50.180 their party status for what they've done to canada but um stranger things have happened and it

00:38:55.440 wouldn't surprise me if they actually did gain some ground but most of those things that you

00:39:00.420 read telling you oh they're gaining ground they're they're ahead in the polls it's all bullshit it's

00:39:06.460 totally yeah suppression polls obviously but you know and the ecos one i absolutely understand frank

00:39:12.720 graves is the guy's name and he's on record and you know on social media even 10 years ago talking

00:39:18.820 about how much he hates conservatives and he's in no position to be running a polling company but

00:39:23.480 when you're talking about main street and then maybe leger and angus reed coming out showing

00:39:27.480 liberals starting to creep up a little bit and that could be the bounce the same thing that kamala

00:39:32.020 harris got in the states when they first announced her i don't know uh but i know that pierre poly

00:39:37.280 has come off weak in the last week and a half or so and i think yesterday he came out with the

00:39:43.640 whole fentanyl border thing which may have bucked him back up a little bit but when he agreed with

00:39:49.220 trudeau about a dollar for dollar tariff retaliation that was i think there's a lot of people in

00:39:54.720 canada going oh no what are you doing man like are you insane i i i think he's trying really hard to

00:40:03.540 look strong and he's been doing a pretty good job i think he's a good guy i i think he really wants

00:40:11.560 things to be good for canada he wants things to be better for canada but he will not absolutely

00:40:19.600 will not do anything to fix the inequities between the West and Eastern Canada. He's already spoken

00:40:26.200 out against an Alberta pension plan, even though we can show the numbers that it benefits Albertans

00:40:34.040 tremendously if we manage and have our own pension plan. He has spoken out against fixing

00:40:39.920 the equalization program, but Quebec doesn't include their resource revenue from hydroelectricity

00:40:47.760 in their equalization formula yet alberta includes our oil and gas revenue like it makes absolutely

00:40:56.120 no sense so pierre poliver uh i i'm i would bet five dollars that he's going to be the next prime

00:41:02.360 minister of the country i think it's going to take a lot longer than people realize and the best we

00:41:07.960 can hope for is that he will be less bad for alberta and i say this with uh 45 years of experience

00:41:16.580 well I guess 35 probably were paying attention we had western people become prime ministers

00:41:23.320 and always talking about how we can fix the relationship with Alberta and eastern Canada

00:41:28.460 Stephen Harper is a perfect example he he contributed to the firewall letters he was

00:41:33.900 the one that came up the ideas how Alberta can insulate themselves from the federal government

00:41:37.500 be more prosperous he became the prime minister not one of those things happened you know it's

00:41:42.180 it's just business you cannot do anything to fix confederation if you want to be prime minister

00:41:46.920 because the business case ends at the manitoba border so what would do you think danielle smith

00:41:56.100 would go along with this i mean like i'm trying to picture the beginnings of this process and i'm

00:42:01.320 going back to the mid-90s because really it's the only thing that i could think of in terms of a

00:42:05.380 province separating uh from canada and you know the big uh sovereignty crisis of the mid-1990s

00:42:11.680 when Quebec had that vote, and it was like 50.1% in favor of staying in Canada.

00:42:16.280 I mean, that was as close as it could get.

00:42:18.220 Close as it gets, yeah.

00:42:19.540 Would that be something that Alberta would have to initiate through political means?

00:42:24.720 Or is it a petition?

00:42:26.300 Because I know you guys have got a petition for a referendum on Alberta sovereignty

00:42:30.080 up on the Alberta Prosperity Project website.

00:42:32.960 Would that be something that you would take to Danielle and say,

00:42:35.980 look, we've got like 500,000 signatures here.

00:42:40.060 we we need you to do something on this do you think it would be like moving a mountain to get

00:42:45.440 her to do anything and and i'll be completely honest she has been as far as i'm concerned

00:42:50.460 even though there's a lot of people who say she's a globalist and she's all of this i don't think

00:42:55.220 she is she's not um i don't i don't think she is but she's done more than any other canadian

00:43:01.820 politician in terms of you know adhering to freedom principles and common sense principles

00:43:10.140 right do you think she and you know the sovereignty act would she be open to something like this

00:43:16.400 could she take that petition to her cabinet to her caucus and say all right guys this is something

00:43:22.960 we seriously have to look at so there's a couple questions there the first one was would she be on

00:43:30.060 board and i think you meant would she be on board with the idea of separation or independence or

00:43:34.860 secession the other one was uh would she be uh receptive to a petition yeah well no could she

00:43:44.160 actually convince i mean now we know what kind of a negotiator she is she's been at mar-a-lago

00:43:49.380 dealing with one of the best negotiations negotiators on the planet so we know that

00:43:54.420 she's probably good at convincing people of things could she get her cabinet and her caucus to buy

00:44:00.740 into this i mean i understand this uh you know this is a big deal man yes and and she wouldn't

00:44:07.400 have a choice our government here in alberta is compelled by legislation to table referendums if

00:44:13.040 we meet the criteria for a citizens initiative referendum that was one of the things that ucp

00:44:17.420 did early on they passed some legislation and i call it a smoke and mirrors legislation because

00:44:21.780 the the the criteria for achieving it is almost impossible the way it works is alberta citizens

00:44:29.780 can sign uh uh what do you call it a formal petition under elections alberta rules asking

00:44:38.440 the government to put a referendum question on the table if it's a matter of constitutional issue

00:44:43.500 like secession or equalization or something like that um you need about 600 well you need a roughly

00:44:49.980 600,000 people or 20% to do that. If it's a regular, you know, provincial jurisdiction,

00:44:56.560 just legislation type thing issue, you need 10%. So Daniel Smith, if we got 600,000 signatures

00:45:04.300 and plopped them on her desk saying, we want a referendum question on secession,

00:45:08.680 she would be compelled to do it through law, by law. Now it doesn't say how long they have before

00:45:14.860 they can do it but they do have to do it and i also want to point out i one thing i've learned

00:45:21.480 about danielle smith over the last couple years and full disclosure when i first met her i sat

00:45:28.180 beside her and had dinner with her in uh olds at the red willow barn or something like that

00:45:32.560 i realized who i was sitting with and i was like i hate this woman i hate her she destroyed my

00:45:38.120 life she destroyed my livelihood she crossed the floor all these things um i've since learned

00:45:44.200 she made a terrible mistake and the lesson that she learned is now influencing the way she does

00:45:52.740 things i asked her once i should say we asked her once why don't you just legislate an alberta

00:46:00.040 pension plan it's within your jurisdiction you can do it with an act of the legislature right now

00:46:04.160 you know it's the right thing to do and her response was i don't want to be jason kenney 2.0

00:46:09.880 I'm not a tyrant. I will put it to the people of Alberta. So that tells me if the people of

00:46:14.940 Alberta specifically said they want something, she will do it because she believes in choice.

00:46:21.540 The other part of that, specifically regarding secession, we hosted, when I say we at the

00:46:28.100 Alberta Prosperity Project, hosted a leadership debate in Edmonton. And we invited all of the

00:46:34.340 UCP leadership candidates to debate some stuff. Basically, we wanted to show our membership

00:46:39.120 which person was more aligned with what APP wanted to do okay Ezra Levant was questioning

00:46:47.000 her with Dennis Modry and Ezra asked her you know I understand you want to do these things

00:46:52.340 with the Alberta Sovereignty with the United Canada Act what if it doesn't work how far are

00:46:56.320 you willing to go what is your or else and would you use it and her response was the Alberta

00:47:03.020 prosperity project is the or else she's she said if she can't get it done if she can't fix

00:47:10.540 the wrongs that are you know with our relationship with canada it becomes the citizen's duty

00:47:17.100 to mobilize and get it done we are the or else she's she'll fulfill the leadership role and do

00:47:25.680 what the province wants her to do but we have to do the work and unfortunately uh she she's she's

00:47:31.020 done the same thing with the Alberta pension plan. I wish she'd just legislated it. We're trying to

00:47:34.460 work on that too. But, uh, so the short answer is yes, she is receptive and she would do something

00:47:39.480 about it. Is there going to be an Alberta police force also like Ontario and Quebec have? We're

00:47:44.920 already working on it just in a little bit of a different way. So what she's done is she's given

00:47:48.940 our Alberta sheriffs more responsibility and more, uh, uh, power than they had previously had. So we

00:47:56.880 had this issue where our sheriffs they they're doing most of the jobs that rcmp did anyway but

00:48:02.360 there's just a couple silly things they couldn't do so we said well why don't we just utilize them

00:48:05.980 to the best of our advantage there are police they're provincial police and that lays the

00:48:11.220 foundation lays the groundwork for an alberta police force so she's not necessarily saying

00:48:16.120 we're going to have an alberta police force but we're laying the foundation so that the rcmp become

00:48:22.100 irrelevant you see it sounds to me like the infrastructure is already being laid out the

00:48:29.300 sovereignty right and so you know i'm not sure if that's danielle smith behind that or if it's you

00:48:38.140 guys behind that or whoever it is but somebody is behind already getting ready for sovereignty

00:48:45.800 that's what it seems like what kind of an impact does the alberta prosperity project have

00:48:51.680 within the province do you guys have a large following do you have a large database are

00:48:55.620 there more and more people joining you know it's not that large but it it's growing and it's one

00:49:02.820 of those things you mentioned before kind of the independence movement kind of comes and goes and

00:49:07.120 the alberta prosperity project has identified that there's times when there's a lot of energy and a

00:49:12.020 lot of uh desire for an independent alberta and then there's times where there just isn't we just

00:49:18.380 went through that. Daniel Smith was elected. We had the Alberta Sovereignty with the United

00:49:21.740 Canada Act. She's doing all these things. And a lot of people said, yay, we won. And the rest of

00:49:26.660 us within the APP were like, well, hold on. Nothing has actually changed. We haven't fixed

00:49:31.340 anything. We still need this referendum. And then people are like, yay, yay, it's all great. Just

00:49:36.020 kind of walking away. And that's the reality of the situation. So if you ask me how many

00:49:43.300 Albertans are on board with Alberta Sovereignty, I'd say it's a very, very large group. We just

00:49:47.900 have to reach them. Why did she fire for a second time now the entire board of the Alberta Health

00:49:54.540 Services? Were they corrupt as well? It was the right thing to do. I mean, if you have a board

00:50:00.900 that's not doing what they're supposed to be doing, why would you keep them? Alberta Health

00:50:10.680 Services sucks. The organization sucks. It's one of the worst run organizations in the country.

00:50:17.900 The people are absolutely fantastic.

00:50:20.340 The doctors, the nurses, the frontline workers, the lab techs, all of them, amazing people

00:50:24.860 bend over backwards to give good quality of service, but they're stuck within this behemoth

00:50:31.540 of an organization that really could care less, you know?

00:50:35.780 So Daniel Smith is looking at this.

00:50:37.680 She's the CEO of Alberta.

00:50:39.640 She's a CEO of a, you know, a $49 billion corporation.

00:50:44.360 uh and she's looking at these things that aren't effectively they're not using our resources

00:50:52.980 effectively in this case tax dollars and people need to be fired and that's all there is to it

00:50:58.140 is the left starting to show a resurgence in alberta and i always worry about that you know

00:51:04.020 when i see people like us you know common sense folks who happen to have a sense of freedom start

00:51:09.520 to squabble a little bit amongst ourselves and you see that that left-wing behemoth starting to come

00:51:14.880 up and i've seen he'd nenshi uh posting on on x all the time now he gets ratioed every single day

00:51:21.200 and i wonder if he even notices what the comments are like but is there a possibility that if daniel

00:51:27.360 slips up someplace along the way that these guys could somehow manage to grab power again in that

00:51:32.960 province uh no no the only thing that would give the ndp the ability to govern this province again

00:51:47.800 is if our current government or the ucp party at large did something so heinous and horrendous that

00:51:57.120 um even the people that kind of plugged their nose and voted for their ucp candidate last

00:52:02.520 time couldn't do they you know the NDP have this they have a real leg up in that they have the

00:52:11.300 support of most of the unions and if you do a little digging in that it's a really it's an

00:52:17.140 interesting dig you'll find that the NDP rewards union bosses very very well for towing the line

00:52:24.980 there's a number of them that sit on the provincial board of the the new democratic

00:52:31.620 Party in Alberta. And in return for that, for their position in power, they have to steer their

00:52:38.600 unions towards the Labour Party. Like the NDP is the Labour Party, right? Well, how well did the

00:52:44.160 NDP do for Labour when they were governing? We had 150,000 jobs lost, economy in shambles. It was

00:52:52.780 just an absolute disaster. So even Nahid Nenshi with his great slogans like these people don't

00:53:00.380 need to eat i don't think he's going to bring them to governance um so is danielle still clearing

00:53:07.640 out the rot in the bureaucracy is that what that firing that second firing of ahs board was and

00:53:13.680 because and possibly in the legal areas as well the bureaucracy the deep state runs very deep

00:53:21.280 and it could be that she's still trying to clean that stuff out because you know what i've been

00:53:26.880 finding out a lot lately chris especially in the last six months i'll say is that

00:53:30.900 the bureaucracy controls everything and if they don't like what a politician promises they've got

00:53:38.280 very creative ways to not implement right absolutely i i think she's she's doing what

00:53:45.640 she can people have to remember it's not just a government that we elect that runs the province

00:53:52.500 who do you think is there election to election there's people behind those elected officials

00:53:57.860 deputy ministers a whole slew of bureaucrats under their under their uh command or whatever

00:54:05.420 so somebody once said to me actually it was uh dr gary davidson i asked him that very question i

00:54:12.500 said why i gotta get him on i gotta get him on oh he is a fantastic human being like that he is such

00:54:18.480 an amazing, amazing guy. I hope he's the guy behind the COVID report, by the way, that one

00:54:23.620 that came out a couple of weeks ago. That's right. And one of the biggest encouragements to me

00:54:28.480 throughout this entire thing, I met him very early on in my civil disobedience. I've stayed in touch

00:54:33.920 with him ever since. And yeah, so much respect for him. But he said to me once, you have to

00:54:38.800 understand that it isn't just when you say take down AHS. Okay, great. What is that? Well, that's

00:54:47.140 2000 bureaucrats that do not agree with conservative values. That's 2000 bureaucrats

00:54:54.360 that have done very well for themselves under the current corrupt system. And they will do anything

00:54:59.760 in their power to hold on to that. So Daniel Smith, like every other politician, I think,

00:55:08.400 thinks you're going to go in and do all these things. And you get in there and you look around,

00:55:12.560 you're like holy crap everybody wants me dead like they all want to kill me they all want it's

00:55:18.040 like survivor it's like going out of the island right they're all looking at you okay who's with

00:55:22.280 me and who's not wow that's crazy exactly and and she doesn't have the power that trump has trump

00:55:27.220 can sign executive orders all day long as long as he can get it past the senate and congress i mean

00:55:31.860 he can do pretty much whatever he wants and that's the way that country works we don't have that

00:55:35.820 luxury here at all it's a it's a horrible ingrained entrenched bureaucracy and we allowed it to get

00:55:44.280 this way over 50 years if people think it's going to be fixed in a year or two they're delusional

00:55:49.120 you know it was interesting uh during the the coots thing the first one and the second one

00:55:53.980 people were screaming and yelling and i don't think they quite understand the system that

00:55:57.660 danielle needs to do something she needs to let these guys off and and that's that's not something

00:56:02.540 that politicians are supposed to be able to do in our system.

00:56:05.960 Now, we know Trudeau did it because he doesn't care

00:56:08.600 about any of the rules, laws, or conventions of our government system.

00:56:13.880 But, Danielle, I mean, I think there was some kind of an email

00:56:17.920 that may have been in her office a couple of years ago

00:56:20.540 regarding Coots and the left-wing corporate media got all over it

00:56:24.120 and said, she's trying to affect the court case.

00:56:26.240 I mean, seriously, she couldn't do anything.

00:56:30.380 even if she wanted to get those guys she couldn't do it and people were blaming her you know well

00:56:36.700 they got to blame someone and the only other option is to blame ourselves whose fault is it

00:56:41.500 really that we're in this situation it's not the politicians fault it's not a bureaucrat's fault

00:56:45.920 it's our fault Canadians are the most politically apathetic people on the planet less than three

00:56:52.900 percent of Canadians have a membership in a political party we don't celebrate politics

00:56:57.100 we don't particularly care to talk about it we certainly don't have revivalist rallies like they

00:57:01.660 do in the united states we don't celebrate um political events the same way they do this is

00:57:07.500 our fault we've been and and i'm talking about me mostly here because i'm i'm 45 years old

00:57:13.340 or am i 46 i think i turned 46 this year and for the first first 40 years of my life of course

00:57:21.260 18 of those I couldn't vote. I didn't know anything about politics. I thought democracy

00:57:26.840 was voting. I had no idea about civics. Certainly no idea how politics works. And I was completely

00:57:34.640 happy to just let other people make decisions for me. And then I get a little older, get in the

00:57:39.340 workforce. I started a career in the oil patch and I realized, holy crap, like people are making

00:57:43.460 really bad decisions. And I just sat there and whined about it on Facebook, not knowing what

00:57:47.580 else to do so that's that's our fault that's not the politicians fault we as a democracy it's only

00:57:54.240 as good as the people who are voting and we've been very bad at it for years you know i think it

00:58:01.420 would be worth our while to maybe start talking to some people who are very well versed in canadian

00:58:06.360 civics and start some kind of a show or you know an eight-part series that's fun and engaging and

00:58:13.780 that people could watch and learn things and have a good time doing it

00:58:17.080 instead of just voting for orange, blue, or red, or purple, or green.

00:58:20.480 Here's a suggestion.

00:58:21.740 All right.

00:58:26.900 Do you know what this is?

00:58:28.260 It's a book, man.

00:58:29.780 I want to read a book.

00:58:31.220 Nobody wants to read a book.

00:58:32.480 This book was written by my friend, Eva Chipyuk.

00:58:34.800 Yes.

00:58:35.640 Eva, that's what her thing is.

00:58:38.740 She's realized that people are civically ignorant.

00:58:40.940 and that book is her attempt to help educate people as to how we take back control of democracy

00:58:47.940 in Alberta we had a very exciting group that did that during the Kenny it started started with the

00:58:54.920 Jason Kenny era and that was take back Alberta now love them or hate them David Parker did a

00:58:59.320 fantastic job in teaching people about civics and how to take over things and become involved and

00:59:04.840 make a difference right so it doesn't have to be dry and boring and textbook it can be like

00:59:10.380 hey we're meeting under cover of darkness in this barn because it's illegal to meet for political

00:59:15.160 purposes right now and decide how we're going to change the world is there still a lot of division

00:59:21.500 and squabbling amongst uh people in alberta yes yes of course there is um i see in the comments

00:59:28.460 there's i don't know where this came from but people are saying that i have different facebook

00:59:32.040 profiles um i've never used a different facebook profile i'm very open about the things that i talk

00:59:37.980 about i it's always my face and my writing um but people they make all sorts of claims i did a

00:59:45.480 satirical video about chemtrails because i i watched people making threats about pilots and

00:59:52.720 saying they need to uh hang for making lines in the sky and all these things

00:59:57.140 reconnect canada is eva's book there it is and people they gave me death threats they said i

01:00:04.640 wasn't never about a freedom oh all of a sudden now i'm a grifter and i i orchestrated this whole

01:00:09.260 thing and i'm like dude i'm a freaking roughneck like i i'm not that smart that i could mastermind

01:00:18.960 an entire thing starting with a bat or a lab leak in wuhan china right there there's a lot of

01:00:26.140 bickering there's i have friends of mine who recently uh became became christians they were

01:00:32.160 saved by the grace of uh the grace of god through the blood jesus christ and now because they're a

01:00:38.220 new christian i'm not christian enough and i'm a judas because i voted for daniel smith pardon me

01:00:43.800 like this is where we're at you know i i i share my thoughts my opinions i say something's right

01:00:49.920 i say something's wrong people disagree with it or they agree with it but if i don't agree with

01:00:54.760 a specific thing that means that everything else i must be a lizard person sent to infiltrate

01:00:59.760 by george soros right are you still doing your your podcast on a regular basis or is it just

01:01:06.640 whenever you feel like it i'm trying to do it more regularly uh it's very very difficult

01:01:12.840 but the minute i heard the the words spoken out loud by the most powerful man in the world

01:01:20.860 governor trudeau canada the 51st state i was like i gotta do my part i and i've i've

01:01:29.600 tried to bring guests on to talk about these things as much as i can but like today you know

01:01:34.380 i'm in the middle of doing stuff and instead of working on a podcast uh i'm thawing out sewer

01:01:41.600 lines in my campground because i have a business yeah you gotta run the business man and what's

01:01:48.040 the special tomorrow morning uh i don't know i won't know until i go in for breakfast and decide

01:01:54.520 Oh, I thought you did that the night before.

01:01:56.320 I guess not.

01:01:56.980 No, I was at one point, but I kind of stopped.

01:02:00.480 What I do is I go in and I look what we have,

01:02:02.780 what's been selling, what's not been selling,

01:02:04.860 what do we need to use, and is it warm, is it cold,

01:02:08.460 that kind of thing, and then I just pick something.

01:02:11.260 Don't forget to buy Canadian, my friend.

01:02:16.540 You know what?

01:02:17.140 We're buying Mexican right now, folks.

01:02:19.400 If you're enjoying fruits and vegetables

01:02:21.720 and fresh stuff right now, you're buying Mexican

01:02:23.840 or California. You're not buying Canadian.

01:02:26.120 You could, though, if we got over

01:02:28.000 this whole hydrocarbons are evil thing

01:02:29.780 and built greenhouses

01:02:31.840 in Alberta with our insane amount of

01:02:33.920 natural gas that we could grow food in all year round.

01:02:36.420 If they do it in other parts of the world,

01:02:37.820 we could do it here. We could be buying Canadian,

01:02:40.140 but people instead would rather

01:02:41.940 pursue an ideological

01:02:43.420 fairy tale than

01:02:45.280 prepare to buy Canadian.

01:02:47.560 Alright, brother. Thanks for coming on tonight. Good to see you

01:02:49.880 again. And I'll talk to you again

01:02:51.860 soon. Sounds good. Thanks.

01:02:53.840 All right. There's Chris Scott from the Whistle Stop Cafe, Mirror Alberta.

01:03:00.900 And you can find him Whistle Stop Cafe Facebook page and the Alberta Prosperity Project.

01:03:07.800 There's a video that Chris did that is on that page explaining why he became a member of the Alberta Prosperity Project.

01:03:14.260 I find the whole idea extremely exciting.

01:03:17.940 as i've been saying for the past i don't know forever the lines on the map always get redrawn

01:03:28.380 newfoundland became a part of canada in 1949 if you look at the history of this country going

01:03:34.920 back to 1867 and this you know chris brought up some great examples of other countries

01:03:39.560 in our discussion earlier but just look at canada for a second from 1867 the way upper and lower

01:03:46.020 Canada looked. The way Ontario, Quebec looked in the two other provinces that were part of

01:03:50.680 Confederation, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. And then Manitoba gets

01:03:58.700 added to the mix in 1870. They used to call it the postage stamp province. You know what Manitoba

01:04:03.400 looks like now, right? I mean, you can imagine what all the provinces look like now just from

01:04:08.560 closing your eyes and going, all right, that's what Canada looks like. Manitoba was called the

01:04:13.140 postage stamp province because it was this little square piece of land and then it expanded to what

01:04:21.120 now is the southern part of manitoba and then eventually it grew that northern part as well

01:04:27.340 it's interesting isn't it how the lines on the map continue to change it's been talked about

01:04:35.200 for several years in manitoba and northwestern ontario that northwestern ontario from thunder

01:04:41.360 bay west of the manitoba border should all just be part of manitoba because toronto the capital of

01:04:48.220 ontario doesn't care about thunder bay thunder bay be closer to winnipeg anyway so let's just

01:04:53.400 go ahead and add they're part of manitoba now why not it makes more sense geographically it hasn't

01:05:00.500 happened but it gets talked about it gets joked about and then it gets talked about again okay

01:05:05.820 guys i've got a couple of breakers here for you and this is really interesting when we talked

01:05:10.700 about the USAID controversy that has been unwinding for the past couple of days in the

01:05:16.880 United States. In Canada, look what happened here. Canada Proud broke this, and so I've

01:05:22.780 investigated it myself. And then there's a huge breaking story from TNC.news. In just a second,

01:05:28.460 I'll give it to you. Global Affairs Canada, which is the Canadian equivalent of USAID,

01:05:34.280 has suddenly wiped their entire public database of foreign aid spending

01:05:39.960 and the data is no longer available to the public.

01:05:42.680 Do they care that the public can't see it?

01:05:44.660 Probably not, because it's been up there ever since today.

01:05:50.100 They don't want Trump and his people to see it.

01:05:52.680 Because if Trump and his people see that they've been giving $25,000

01:05:57.440 for gay beauty pageants in Kosovo, or $50,000 or $75,000 for DEI in Iraq, he might not like it too

01:06:08.660 much. And so let's have a look at the website here very quickly. First of all, when you hit

01:06:16.360 the link, it takes forever, like the spinning wheel of death, it takes forever to come up on

01:06:20.660 the page forever when it finally does we're working to restore access along with all data

01:06:27.340 as soon as possible it's been like this for hours and i bet you if i hit refresh it's going

01:06:35.600 to take a while to come up people keep going to it look at that isn't that something all right

01:06:47.620 So I'm going to take that down for now.

01:06:49.240 We're going to go to this story here.

01:06:51.620 From TNC.news, Global Affairs Canada,

01:06:55.840 a top funder of state-funded British Broadcasting Corporation,

01:07:00.240 the BBC, mostly for foreign DEI projects.

01:07:06.560 That's what we're spending our money on.

01:07:10.580 Global Affairs Canada is listed as a major contributor

01:07:14.360 to the charity wing of the UK's BBC in 23-24,

01:07:19.060 money that was primarily used for DEI initiatives in Africa.

01:07:25.380 That's where our money is going.

01:07:27.880 Well, some of it.

01:07:29.200 I'm sure some of it is going right into the pockets

01:07:31.640 of NGO executives and government bureaucrats

01:07:35.120 and even government elected officials themselves.

01:07:39.320 According to the charity wing BBC Media Action,

01:07:42.020 GAC handed out $1,623,711 in taxpayer money to the BBC's charity group.

01:07:49.920 Though BBC Media Action noted that Government Affairs Canada

01:07:54.140 provided more than $1.6 million in funding for the fiscal year, 23-24,

01:07:58.820 only one BBC Media Action project was shown on GAC's website during that year,

01:08:03.620 and it cost just over $1.5 million.

01:08:06.860 GAC records show most of that money was allocated to a gender equality initiative in East Africa

01:08:14.660 called Broadcasting for Change, Empowering Young Women Through Media in Tanzania.

01:08:21.620 The feds originally budgeted $2.12 million for the program that year, but only transferred $1.536 million.

01:08:29.100 The website says the program funded a nationally recognized youth radio show called Niambi.

01:08:35.780 that was focused on transforming young women and men's attitudes towards gender equality.

01:08:42.820 According to the feds, the project was expected to

01:08:45.460 strengthen the production of gender-sensitive and gender-transformative media

01:08:49.980 that supports the social, economic, and political rights of young women and girls.

01:08:58.120 It also aimed to increase supportive attitudes by Tanzanian youth

01:09:02.040 towards young women's participation in society

01:09:04.340 and to increase the use of social services that support the social, economic, and political rights of young women and girls.

01:09:10.820 When asked about the other amount, nearly $100,000 in unaccounted-for apparent spending,

01:09:16.240 GAC asked True North for an indefinite extension to the deadline provided to give a response.

01:09:22.540 The program was set to run from 2019 through 2024, right through the pandemic,

01:09:28.760 and was granted a maximum contribution of $9.18 million,

01:09:33.140 according to the federal report on the program and its spending.

01:09:35.880 The government also planned a $1.165 million disbursement

01:09:40.260 to BBC Media Action for the program for the fiscal year of 24-25, this fiscal year.

01:09:49.160 This government is doing a terrible job paying bureaucrats in the media here.

01:09:53.620 It's hard to believe the government's paying bureaucrats and media organizations

01:09:56.800 in other countries will work any better.

01:09:58.520 That's from Franco Terrazzano, who is the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

01:10:04.060 Okay, so we're going to see if there's any more on that story in the next couple of days.

01:10:10.540 Hopefully they keep digging, because that's kind of a mini-bomb as compared to what happened in the United States with USAID.

01:10:18.700 That is still leaking out, and some of the money that they've spent, into the trillions they're talking about now,

01:10:24.780 on ridiculous stuff you know like gender theory queer gender theory critical race theory all

01:10:32.480 that stuff in different countries across the world that's coming out and that's why that

01:10:37.500 program is going to be halted it's halted now as it is for three months and when they get in there

01:10:43.820 and see everything else i think there's a court order to stop them from looking right now but

01:10:48.180 when they get back at it and they see everything else that's going to be coming out whoo it's

01:10:54.760 going to get ugly it's going to get real ugly down there okay so this is justin trudeau's tweet

01:11:01.140 from a couple of days ago just after the tariffs were temporarily suspended for 30 days

01:11:08.400 and here's what uh trudeau said after the second phone call he had with trump on monday

01:11:15.040 just had a good call with president trump canada is implementing our 1.3 billion dollar border

01:11:20.620 plant he neglects to mention here that's over six years it's over six years reinforcing the border

01:11:26.700 with new choppers technology and personnel enhanced coordination with our american partners

01:11:31.440 and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl nearly 10 000 frontline personnel are

01:11:37.700 and will be working on protecting the border okay so he hasn't explained that yet either i doubt he

01:11:45.060 will. In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint this fentanyl czar, which we will list

01:11:52.880 cartels as terrorists, ensure 24-7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada-U.S. joint strike force

01:11:58.760 to combat organized crime, fentanyl money laundering. By the way, that's what they're

01:12:03.060 using Canada for. It's a great big money laundering operation. All of these drug gangs operating in

01:12:08.780 this country right now, all 4,000 of them, and yet somehow they can't get Fintrac to freeze those

01:12:14.200 accounts, but they could get FinTrack to freeze the accounts of peace-loving, freedom-loving

01:12:19.400 Canadians who went to protest their government's actions. Isn't that interesting? All right,

01:12:25.160 so we read this thing for you. Now, here's our public safety minister just today, who appears

01:12:32.240 to be walking back Trudeau's words. Watch. Why should the longest undefended border in the world,

01:12:38.400 which we pride ourselves in having, 400,000 people a day cross the border back and forth,

01:12:44.200 billions of dollars of trade back and forth jobs at stake i don't understand why somebody can sort

01:12:50.840 of willy-nilly throw the suggestion that the entire canadian border should be militarized

01:12:55.080 i don't think that's predicated on fact or evidence we have incredibly strong teams a

01:13:00.600 strong border which is getting stronger the rcmp the cbsa conservation officers indigenous police

01:13:06.440 provincial police forces municipal police forces are cooperating this is an important moment

01:13:12.920 because we have jobs at stake.

01:13:15.460 And so I think Mr. Poliev has some explaining to do.

01:13:19.760 Mr. Poliev has some explaining to do.

01:13:22.800 What did he do?

01:13:24.760 Mr. Poliev at present doesn't have the power to do anything.

01:13:29.200 What he talked about yesterday made perfect sense to me.

01:13:31.620 He talked about locking up these fentanyl dealers for life.

01:13:34.580 Life.

01:13:40.240 Trudeau's the one that made the promise

01:13:41.940 because Trump forced him to.

01:13:43.360 And now it looks like David McGinty,

01:13:45.540 who is the minister of,

01:13:47.040 what is he the minister of?

01:13:48.720 Public safety.

01:13:49.900 He says, well, I don't think we need the border

01:13:52.000 to be militarized.

01:13:53.900 Okay, hold on just a second.

01:13:55.900 You got two bosses right now, Mr. McGinty.

01:13:58.080 I understand that.

01:13:58.900 On one hand, you've got Justin Trudeau

01:14:00.540 who's made this promise to President Trump

01:14:04.500 to enforce the border now.

01:14:07.160 But maybe you've got Mark Carney saying,

01:14:09.160 you know what, maybe we should walk that back

01:14:10.860 because we don't really want to do that.

01:14:12.800 So who's he supposed to listen to?

01:14:14.260 The guy on the way out or the guy on the way in?

01:14:18.280 But I hope Trump sees that.

01:14:20.820 I really, really hope that Trump sees that.

01:14:25.240 Here's a piece of video from committee a couple of months ago.

01:14:30.540 Dane Lloyd, who is an Alberta MP, asking CSIS and RCMP

01:14:35.500 the question of how many people are involved in the fentanyl trade in Canada.

01:14:40.860 And how many organizations are there?

01:14:43.240 You're going to be blown away.

01:14:44.160 Watch this.

01:14:45.800 How many, to the RCMP, how many people do you estimate are involved in the production and distribution of fentanyl in Canada?

01:14:54.480 Do you have like a ballpark estimate?

01:14:56.680 Is it 1,000 people?

01:14:57.940 Is it 10,000 people?

01:15:00.980 I don't have a ballpark figure on it.

01:15:04.720 So you have no idea how many people could possibly be involved in the fentanyl trade in Canada?

01:15:09.680 There is a significant number of organized crime groups, but if you're asking for a specific number, I can't give you a specific number.

01:15:17.120 How many organized crime groups are involved?

01:15:19.460 Over 4,000 organized crime groups in Canada, as assessed by the Criminal Intelligence Service.

01:15:24.880 4,000 individual organized crime groups, all with their own distinct leadership and membership?

01:15:29.940 That's correct.

01:15:30.380 4,000 organized crime groups

01:15:37.140 all with their own distinct leadership

01:15:40.020 operating in Canada right now.

01:15:44.520 Fentanyl and other hard drugs.

01:15:46.880 How did this ever happen?

01:15:49.480 4,000.

01:15:50.080 If each gang had, let's say, 20 members,

01:15:54.320 and that's being conservative,

01:15:56.300 20 members, that's 80,000.

01:16:00.380 80,000 gang members.

01:16:05.480 Wow.

01:16:06.960 We've got a huge problem in this country, man.

01:16:09.700 Seriously.

01:16:10.360 You go to the core, the downtown core of the city that you live in,

01:16:14.660 and look at it,

01:16:16.180 and tell me that it's the same as it was five years ago,

01:16:19.560 10 years ago, never mind 20 years ago.

01:16:22.860 This is some good news here.

01:16:24.880 Google acts in diversity hiring targets as it reviews its DEI programs.

01:16:31.040 Google, this is the last holdout.

01:16:34.280 This is the one I was complaining about last night.

01:16:37.020 These guys also run YouTube.

01:16:39.580 Google has become the latest in a growing number of U.S. firms

01:16:42.760 to roll back on DEI initiatives as it acts as hiring targets and reviews its programs.

01:16:50.200 The tech giant has followed firms like Amazon, Meta, and McDonald's

01:16:53.980 as corporate America continues to shift towards more conservative social and political stances

01:16:59.380 in response to the start of Trump's presidency.

01:17:02.820 That's awesome.

01:17:03.900 In its annual report released this week,

01:17:05.680 Google's parent company, Alphabet,

01:17:07.820 omitted a sentence that had been included

01:17:09.840 in its previous few reports,

01:17:11.520 stating that it was committed to making diversity,

01:17:13.740 equity, and inclusion part of everything we do

01:17:16.020 and to growing a workforce that's representative

01:17:18.680 of the users we serve.

01:17:20.880 Meanwhile, a company email sent to staff

01:17:23.980 said the firm would no longer have the aspirational goals

01:17:27.940 that had previously set to improve representation.

01:17:32.000 The Wall Street Journal first reported.

01:17:34.340 And a Google spokesperson says,

01:17:37.220 we're committed to creating a workplace

01:17:38.680 where all our employees can succeed

01:17:40.640 and have equal opportunities.

01:17:42.200 And over the last year,

01:17:43.400 we've been reviewing our programs

01:17:44.860 designed to help us get there.

01:17:46.580 Over the last year?

01:17:48.280 You mean over the last week, don't you?

01:17:50.740 We've updated our 10K language to reflect this.

01:17:53.540 And as a federal contractor,

01:17:55.300 our teams are also evaluating changes

01:17:57.440 required following recent court decisions and executive orders on this topic all right so maybe

01:18:03.920 they got forced into it but they are still doing it so hip hip hooray regarding that team canada

01:18:09.520 thing that chris and i were talking about those those those sheep who've been going team canada

01:18:15.600 man we're gonna take on the us and we're gonna win like boobs boobs if you wanna

01:18:23.200 to if you want to see a ridiculous movie about this very thing that's been going on watch Canadian

01:18:30.920 Bacon with John Candy and Dan Aykroyd I think is in it so a lot I got to take Chris's name down

01:18:38.360 from here it's been up there for a while I guess I should just take it down and leave mine up

01:18:41.620 how about that okay so at hockey games NHL hockey games in the past week Vancouver Ottawa Edmonton

01:18:49.280 the people there the crowds have been booing the u.s national anthem so there's a new policy now

01:18:55.660 that's been issued following these incidents and um it's because of a peewee tournament that's

01:19:04.240 starting next week in quebec city city officials are reminding the public don't boo the 11 and 12

01:19:12.140 year old american hockey players who are coming to town for the event that's according to the

01:19:16.800 canadian press mayor bruno marchand told a news conference he understands the desire to send a

01:19:22.920 message to the united states but that ordinary american visitors don't represent their precedent

01:19:28.000 oh stupid stupid stupid stupid oh okay one more thing before i go here and by the way guys tonight

01:19:38.200 and again once again i'm leaving the extension up on telegram tonight at in the shadow at night

01:19:45.660 community. That's a group there. I think there's 500 members in there now. We're going to leave

01:19:50.060 the, uh, the extension up in there. It's also available obviously on the website, shadowdavits.com

01:19:55.280 next week. We won't be, there is no show tomorrow night. I'm busy all day tomorrow. I will not have

01:20:01.900 time to put a show together tomorrow night, back Monday night. Um, but yeah, tonight on the

01:20:07.260 extension, we've got a former cop, also a former 33rd degree Freemason, who's going to expose

01:20:18.100 everything. Now, this is an older video that I saw probably seven or eight years ago and went,

01:20:25.720 whoa, that's crazy. We're going to watch it again tonight. And you know what? You can't

01:20:31.640 even find this guy's name don't even know if he's still alive haven't seen him on anything else

01:20:39.940 so this story comes from ifl science and it's not good avian flu first made the jump from birds

01:20:51.660 into dairy cows on farms in a number of u.s states in the spring of last year let me make this bigger

01:20:57.380 Why is it so small?

01:21:00.760 There we go.

01:21:04.260 All right.

01:21:06.360 Until now, all such cases of the H5N1 virus

01:21:10.440 have been ascribed to a genotype called B3.13,

01:21:13.900 but the U.S. Department of Agriculture

01:21:15.820 has just announced the detection of a second genotype.

01:21:21.560 It's in milk samples.

01:21:24.940 This is the first.

01:21:25.720 said, what do you think they're doing here? This is the first detection of the virus. This virus

01:21:31.460 genotype in dairy cattle confirmed the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

01:21:36.180 in a statement. By the way, if you think Canada is the only place they've been culling birds

01:21:40.900 and cattle, you would be wrong. It's been happening in the United States insanely more than here.

01:21:48.520 And it's been going on longer as well. This detection was confirmed on January 31st in

01:21:54.500 milk samples collected in nevada as part of the usda's national milk testing strategy it's part

01:22:00.620 of the agency surveillance measures as it tracks the ongoing h5n1 situation on farms all across

01:22:07.160 the country they are reducing the food supply my friends and maybe they're trying to get another

01:22:16.140 pandemic going here's a reminder of reducing population growth that's the this big benefit

01:22:23.680 the key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health in the developed

01:22:29.520 countries the big winners are countries that have shrinking populations i would like to reduce the

01:22:35.600 number of people on the planet because there's too many of us when we invest in clean energy

01:22:41.440 and electric vehicles and reduce population what the more of our children can breathe clean air

01:22:49.360 and drink clean water the world today has 6.8 billion people that's headed up to about 9 billion

01:22:56.560 now if we do a really great job on new vaccines health care reproductive health services we could

01:23:03.440 lower that we're taking things that are you know genetically modified organisms and we're injecting

01:23:10.000 them in little kids arms we just shoot them right into the bank so in the next five to ten years

01:23:15.040 for the next pandemic we will we'll solve all those problems you say the next pandemic there

01:23:21.040 will be another pandemic absolutely we don't know when history teaches us that the next pandemic

01:23:26.560 is a matter of when not if we know what's next we're gonna have another major coronavirus pandemic

01:23:32.800 before the end of this decade before 2030. if we really want to prevent the next pandemic

01:23:38.560 and there will be one there will absolutely be an outbreak of another pandemic it may be next year

01:23:45.760 we need more money to plan for the second pandemic there's going to be another pandemic

01:23:50.080 we have to think ahead we definitively will have to face other surprises black swans as they are

01:23:56.720 called maybe different kinds of viruses but also there will be a surprise outbreak most the work

01:24:03.280 we're going to do to be ready for pandemic two i i call this pandemic one you know we just need to

01:24:09.600 mess around all right that's it for the social media part of the show tonight you guys thank

01:24:19.920 you for being here i appreciate you all coming uh to the show uh you guys regular viewers of

01:24:25.360 kristin kerry over on the whistle stop cafe facebook page and x page thank you go ahead

01:24:30.720 and like and share this page it's called the shadow davis show on facebook or on rumble or

01:24:36.780 on youtube you can find me on all of the big social media platforms thank you for being here

01:24:41.140 and thank you for sticking with me for the duration the extension begins in two minutes

01:24:46.760 on shadow davis.com and the shadow at night community on telegram i'll see you there if

01:24:51.980 not i'll catch you next monday night eight o'clock central for another shadow at night

01:24:56.900 livestream. Love you all. Appreciate you all. Bye for now.

01:25:26.900 We'll be right back.

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Feb. 6th⧸2025- Special Guest Chris Scott Whistlestop Cafe, Mirror AB Should Alberta Separate？

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