The Shadoe Davis Show - March 20, 2026


March 19th⧸2026- w⧸Jeffrey Rath of the Alberta Prosperity Project & Poilievre on Rogan


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00:02:00.000 hello everybody and welcome to the shadow davis show it's thursday march the 19th 2026
00:02:20.160 so pierre polyev as everybody knows by now was a guest on the joe rogan experience and that
00:02:26.880 episode dropped today two and a half hours of uh i watched the whole thing and it looked like pierre
00:02:32.460 was down to earth mostly removed from his political rhetoric and his slogan making and just sitting
00:02:39.320 back and talking like a regular human being a lot of people praised that and i think it's probably
00:02:44.800 more of a credit to rogan for being able to get through the armor of a politician as he's want to
00:02:52.320 do with pretty much everybody now he didn't have the brandy and the cigars out for this particular
00:02:56.520 episode like he does with some people, but it was a very relaxed atmosphere. My guest tonight
00:03:05.200 is Jeff Rath of the Alberta Prosperity Project, one of the prime movers behind the Alberta
00:03:11.260 sovereignty movement. And how do these two things tie together? You might be asking yourself right
00:03:17.460 now. Well, there was a moment in time during the two and a half hours where Rogan actually asked
00:03:24.520 pierre so alberta they're talking about leaving what do you think about that listen to pierre's
00:03:32.800 response to this and then we're going to bring jeff on immediately after here there's some
00:03:38.440 legitimate frustrations but at the end of the day canada's going to be united and albertans i'm born
00:03:44.700 there's talk about alberta separating that won't happen what was that about it won't happen um
00:03:50.780 Some people are frustrated, but they, you know, there's some legitimate frustrations.
00:03:56.220 But at the end of the day, Canada's going to be united.
00:03:59.580 And Albertans, I'm born and raised in Alberta, and Albertans are seriously patriotic Canadians.
00:04:04.920 Very patriotic.
00:04:05.800 Yeah, they're great people, hardworking.
00:04:08.220 Some of the nicest people you ever met across.
00:04:09.960 They are great people in Alberta.
00:04:10.700 Hardy.
00:04:11.860 They are hardy people.
00:04:13.000 It's cold up there.
00:04:14.280 It is cold.
00:04:15.780 Exactly.
00:04:16.440 You've got to be tough to survive the cold in Canada.
00:04:18.360 to carve a country like we have out of that cold weather on that big open
00:04:21.960 land.
00:04:22.960 Um,
00:04:23.340 but,
00:04:23.820 uh,
00:04:23.980 people just keep on going and,
00:04:25.860 uh,
00:04:26.060 Alberta's got a real kind of rugged,
00:04:27.600 uh,
00:04:28.540 individualism.
00:04:31.980 All right,
00:04:32.720 Jeff,
00:04:33.020 thank you for coming on at short notice tonight,
00:04:34.920 by the way,
00:04:35.380 I'm happy to have you back on the show.
00:04:36.960 Uh,
00:04:37.380 thoughts.
00:04:38.800 Well,
00:04:39.300 I think Pierre Polyev has full blown AIDS.
00:04:42.800 Alberta independence denial syndrome.
00:04:46.560 Oh,
00:04:46.720 let me ask you i mean when you hear a politician
00:04:53.440 ostensibly agreeing with pretty much the principle of why alberta at least so many people in alberta
00:05:02.280 want to make their own country and then to hear him say something like that like
00:05:06.900 how does that make you feel is it just another oh i mean it doesn't it doesn't bother me i mean
00:05:12.940 i laugh like i said it's like you know he's got full-blown aids i mean that's how we look at it
00:05:17.380 i mean he's in denial he just that won't happen that won't happen that won't happen it's like
00:05:22.240 okay pierre there's 7 000 canvassers currently door knocking in alberta and what we're getting
00:05:29.100 what's being reported back from our 7 000 door knockers is that at the doors right now and this
00:05:35.680 is this is a report i got yesterday from one of our people that was out banging on doors in
00:05:40.460 denisville the other night okay one third of people right won't sign the petition because
00:05:46.920 they've already signed the petition right one third of people at the door um sign the petition
00:05:53.840 and there's only a third of the people at the door effectively that are opposed to alberta
00:05:58.980 independence so we keep you know so we think that we're you know we're well beyond any polling there
00:06:04.520 was a recent poll that came out um showed you know that uh rachel uh parker had put out um an
00:06:11.760 ecos poll that showed that we were over 41 percent in the polls now but that poll that you need to
00:06:18.740 keep in mind ecos right because they're kind of liberal affiliated they've sat on that poll since
00:06:24.480 september so i can tell you that since the petition campaign has started the energy for
00:06:30.960 independence in Alberta you know is through the roof but most of the other polls that I've seen
00:06:36.700 and I'm not trying to poo-poo this believe me I'm on your side when it comes to this I think
00:06:40.400 the only hope that Canada has is Alberta forming its own nation and I know how that sounds too it
00:06:47.660 sounds stupid but I think it's the only hope that the people of this country have really and you
00:06:54.200 know for those of us outside of Alberta currently who believe in that movement and and are hoping
00:06:59.020 so badly that it succeeds we want to come there um eventually once we can afford to uh to get out
00:07:06.580 there and do that thing but the polls i'm seeing are showing 20 the latest one i think it came out
00:07:13.020 last week and i'm not sure uh which company put it out but it was 20 20 20 of albertans want to
00:07:19.680 leave which is down from what we thought earlier 30 or 31 yeah i don't believe any of those polls
00:07:25.520 They don't square up at all with anything that we're seeing at the doors.
00:07:30.080 They don't square up with, you know, the ECOS poll.
00:07:32.860 They don't square up with the lines of, you know, literally, you know, the lines over a mile long going back into the dark January nights of Alberta of people enthusiastically waiting in line with their friends and neighbors to sign the Alberta independence petition.
00:07:48.760 You know, there's a good old-fashioned Alberta word for polls like that, and it's just bullshit.
00:07:53.460 you know i mean right you know they're you know it's liberal propaganda it's like you know at
00:07:57.460 that point shadow you know we might just as well start believing whatever we see on cbc right have
00:08:03.440 you done any uh left-wing media polls or uh media interviews lately no no they for whatever reason
00:08:09.620 they don't have me on um i had a really good one with uh bashi capellos um uh a month ago uh you
00:08:17.420 know when the conservative convention was on in calgary and um apparently i think the national
00:08:23.280 consensus including from my friend Paul St-Pierre Plamondon in Quebec was that I kicked her ass so
00:08:29.100 badly that CTV would never have me back on again that's funny because she she's the only one who
00:08:35.220 might be able to do a reasonable interview with you the others are so confirmation bias that they
00:08:42.360 would never be able to even speak the same language do you feel that way a lot of times when oh god I
00:08:48.040 mean the CBC interviewers are the worst they've stopped having me on because I just I just make
00:08:52.700 fun of them right it's like you know that's just you know okay that's a stupid question are you not
00:08:56.860 embarrassed to be asking that question like one of my favorite ones is aren't you afraid that if
00:09:01.320 alberta becomes independent you're going to be invaded by the united states of america and who's
00:09:06.500 going to defend alberta from the united states of america right as if the united as if canada
00:09:12.940 has an armed forces capable of defending canada against the united states of america right right
00:09:19.060 But it's, you know, but it's that stupid narrative, these stupid narratives that they get a hold of that they want to run to distract from what's, you know, what they know is really going on, which is that Alberta independence is an immovable and unstoppable force, right?
00:09:34.040 Because we know what we get when we vote for independence, right? No more federal income tax, no more GST, no more carbon tax of any form whatsoever, no more stupid regulations from Ottawa, no more capital gains tax, no more threats of the Liberal government taxing the equity in our homes, right?
00:09:53.360 uh no more estate taxes no more you know no more bullshit from ottawa no more stupid politicians
00:09:58.780 in ottawa but oh that gun looks really scary we better out lot and we've been told by our masters
00:10:04.660 in communist china that you know that people shouldn't be allowed to own you know single
00:10:09.600 shot 50 caliber rifles anymore because they might be used to stop chinese troops in the street you
00:10:15.460 know stuff like that right so you know we're tired of it right and so we know what we get when we
00:10:21.100 vote ourselves out of canada we get huge benefits for voting ourselves out of canada now what do
00:10:26.680 people get if they vote to stay in canada oh i really got to get out to vote because i want more
00:10:32.780 of the same miserable bullshit right like you know seriously i mean that's it that's when the
00:10:38.400 referendum campaign actually starts and we're very confident now that you know that it will
00:10:43.120 because we're you know we've been we've been having a very very successful um uh you know
00:10:48.340 canvassing and signature gathering campaign right but um what's going on with this injunction let
00:10:54.220 me ask you uh juno put this out i think maybe two weeks ago they say sign now alberta independence
00:11:00.140 leader warns of looming court challenge and that there could be a forthcoming injunction that will
00:11:05.440 take away your legal right to canvas out there i've never ever bullshitted you on your show once
00:11:12.140 so i'll tell you straight up that i think the odds of that injunction issuing to stop collecting
00:11:17.160 signatures you know are pretty low slim to none in fact those are the exact words the judge used
00:11:22.780 in court when it was being suggested by Orla O'Kelly the lawyer for Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation
00:11:29.180 who's seeking you know this injunction the judge said look the odds of me granting an injunction
00:11:34.580 to stop signature collection in this province is slim to none right so you know I mean you know I
00:11:41.780 mean that's that's where it's at I mean it's true that we're concerned about it and I think it's
00:11:46.200 true that uh uh you know that we would like people to be campaigning and gathering signatures and we
00:11:52.980 would like all of our canvassers to be gathering signatures like we're a hundred thousand signatures
00:11:58.060 behind i mean we really you know we really want to get you know wait a minute clarify what you
00:12:03.180 just said because some people might actually assume that you're a hundred thousand behind
00:12:06.540 right now you were just using that as a metaphor i'm just yeah obviously just using that as a
00:12:10.420 metaphor but that having been said we want people to you know people that care about a free and
00:12:14.720 independent alberta you know we want you to get out and work and knock on doors and collect
00:12:20.220 signatures and we want people to sign the petition as if the future lives of their children and
00:12:26.500 grandchildren depend on it because they do right so you know we want everybody working as hard as
00:12:33.020 they can here for these last six weeks um to get as high a number in as possible you know we always
00:12:39.420 say we need this to be too big to write right um you know because we you know we're not very
00:12:44.680 confident um uh you know in the elections alberta process uh they haven't shown us to date that
00:12:51.260 they're the least bit unbiased right so you know we want to make sure that uh you know that we have
00:12:56.560 way way more than we need uh going forward and on top of it it makes a very strong political
00:13:01.780 statement right and that political statement is you know you know uh you know if we have 20 percent
00:13:08.600 of the population of the voting public you know so say we get 400 000 signatures or five or whatever
00:13:13.680 we have 20 or 25 percent of the voting public signing a petition to get out of uh alberta
00:13:20.280 what does that tell you about the polls right that's you know 25 percent of people who are
00:13:25.920 actually putting their name on you know on the line using vote with photo id right and there's
00:13:32.060 a lot of difference between between people who are just willing to say in a poll versus actually
00:13:37.940 putting your name out there people are scared you know like when sign here i'm not putting my name
00:13:42.960 on anything right that's that moment you know is a big moment right it's getting them to sign on
00:13:48.900 the dotted line and so you know when they do that that is showing an absolute dedication to the cause
00:13:54.920 and you say that's going well i've seen some videos our friend martin belanger he he does
00:14:01.960 a canvassing thing right yeah and i i don't know the context around it but that one video in
00:14:08.800 particular aside from the old guy saying you're a traitor um the the woman who just stopped in
00:14:15.340 front of his canvassing booth there and started just yelling at him uh then almost ripped his
00:14:19.740 shirt off when he went to get her license plate number do you know what happened with that one
00:14:24.120 no i have i haven't talked to marty but i you know i wish marty would be a little bit calmer
00:14:29.220 about these things right she was i mean again i mean that woman was obviously suffering from a
00:14:34.880 different form of aids right not alberta independence denial syndrome she had full-blown
00:14:40.080 alberta independence derangement syndrome right you know so you know that poor woman was obviously
00:14:45.800 some form of edp right you emotionally disturbed person and you know i think that when you're
00:14:51.000 dealing with people like that you need to be calm and you've got to deal with them you know
00:14:54.820 um you know in a manner that doesn't you know doesn't make you look just as crazy
00:14:59.680 well in fairness to marty she did almost rip his shirt off him when he went to go well we didn't
00:15:06.480 see we didn't see that in the video but uh you know i wouldn't i wouldn't uh and maybe that was
00:15:12.240 very surprising to marty and that's why he had the whole high-pitched reaction that he had to it
00:15:16.760 but um as far as it goes you know i would urge everybody when they're dealing with people like
00:15:24.020 that to just be calm and you know and deal with them you know like demonstrate that you're the
00:15:28.360 rational you know adult in the room and uh you know and uh you know and try to be as calm as
00:15:34.400 you can because you know like you know the more energy you put into emotionally disturbed people
00:15:39.460 the more emotionally disturbed they become quite often that is true but i mean let me let me ask
00:15:44.260 you this is there a stock line that the leadership provides to the canvassers out there and there's
00:15:49.340 7,000 of them, you know, and I'm sure they all face this kind of pushback from the mentally
00:15:54.800 deranged people, the ones that will walk right up to your face and call you a traitor.
00:15:59.320 Is there any kind of stock response that you recommend they use?
00:16:02.460 Yeah, and that is, you know, that I'm, you know, I'm an Alberta elections, Alberta approved
00:16:09.040 canvasser engaged in a lawfully constituted process and obstruction of canvassing contravenes
00:16:18.000 the elections act and you could be subject to fines up to 25 000 so you know that's it right
00:16:24.920 i mean you wouldn't try and have a conversation with him and actually turn him around somehow
00:16:28.520 but no i mean it's politics right it's like you know like when you're knocking on doors i mean
00:16:32.980 you're you learn not to waste your time at doors where people are intentionally wasting your time
00:16:38.120 to try to keep you engaged with their silly left-wing garbage right yeah and by letting
00:16:43.400 those people stand in front of a canvassing table and interrupt what's going on and keeping
00:16:49.740 other people from signing because they're there doing you know engaged in their performative
00:16:54.260 nonsense right you're you know you're basically preventing other people you know from being able
00:16:59.840 to come and sign or be comfortable about coming to sign or whatever it is right so you know those
00:17:05.060 you know those people needed to you know need to be dealt with you know calmly and rationally and
00:17:09.900 moved on their way and if they won't move on their way and if they continue to obstruct then
00:17:14.280 just phone the police right okay so what what about the people in the middle i mean you you
00:17:18.500 guys have been going out doing the town halls still yeah oh yeah for sure there's another one
00:17:22.620 in uh in spring bank coming up on tuesday that i'm looking forward to that uh mitch and i'll
00:17:27.680 both be speaking at i hate that golf course but uh i'm not a fan of spring bank links but anyway
00:17:36.100 um there's got to be i mean i think you've probably got let's just say whatever number
00:17:43.280 it is that are absolutely staunchly committed to alberta sovereignty and then there's a bunch
00:17:48.600 that are absolutely committed to keeping alberta in canada there's got to be a soft middle here
00:17:53.600 are you are you finding that the people who are coming out to these town halls
00:17:58.200 are all dedicated to the cause or are there people wanting we always ask at those town halls like
00:18:04.960 how many people have been to a meeting before how many people are the first time whatever
00:18:09.040 and it's usually more than half or three quarters that are there for the first time right so you're
00:18:14.420 not in an echo chamber then no god no these aren't like revival tent meetings where we have the same
00:18:19.400 people coming out over and over again to to sing hosannas right it's you know brother loves travel
00:18:25.540 and salvation yeah yeah exactly right so so you've got people asking questions like there's people
00:18:30.740 saying okay so what happens if what happens what do i do what happens the next day and this was a
00:18:35.960 question of a viewer question actually because i put up an earlier tease post about the show tonight
00:18:40.840 and i said so if you have any questions for jeff write them down one guy said well what happens
00:18:44.140 after like right after the day after i said nothing but let's ask jeff about it well i mean
00:18:49.960 the government doesn't change the day after i mean there's a vote but then there are political
00:18:54.480 consequences that flow from that vote you know and if danielle smith and her government continue
00:18:59.220 to be staunch federalists the day after uh uh you know a majority of albertans vote for independence
00:19:04.840 then i think the consequence of that would likely be a an annual general meeting of the uh united
00:19:11.440 conservative party and you know where danielle's you know basically told that if you're you know
00:19:16.640 you continue to think that you're leading a federalist party when a super majority of your
00:19:22.240 members favor independence and a majority of albertans have voted in favor of independence
00:19:27.540 you know it's time for you to shuffle on right um you know i i don't see that coming i think
00:19:33.360 danielle is going to have to get out in front of the parade sooner you know sooner rather than
00:19:37.160 later um you know she's still playing her little federalist game and i think she was quite
00:19:41.120 encouraged the other night by she went to a leaders dinner um in edmonton to keep in mind
00:19:47.180 those are all very staunch danielle smith supporters it's edmonton so it's kind of you
00:19:51.860 know leftish to begin with and somebody asked her you know what about alberta independence and she
00:19:58.040 said something to the effect of well i hope i still have a few more months to convince you
00:20:03.040 that um uh you know that alberta's place is within canada or whatever and she got a bunch of applause
00:20:09.960 uh for that from the party faithful that were at that meeting and they took that as a big sign
00:20:15.680 but i can tell you that's not where the heart and soul of the united conservative party is i mean
00:20:19.800 And the majority, a super majority of UCP members are in favor of independence.
00:20:24.280 And I think we saw that at the annual general meeting this year that you and I were talking about where, you know,
00:20:30.000 Alberta independence got a standing ovation for by over, you know, 85 to 95 percent of the people for the 4000 people that were at that convention.
00:20:39.600 And then when Danielle Smith started talking about her, you know, you know, her pipe dream MOU with Mark Carney,
00:20:45.980 she was being roundly booed by people in the room because people understand what bullshit it is
00:20:51.560 yeah what about the NDP and and the far left and the media and and all of that I mean
00:20:57.520 whenever we talk about this stuff you and I specifically we never really talk about them
00:21:03.040 are they anything to worry about no they're completely irrelevant I mean we saw that with
00:21:08.180 their stupid recall campaign where they're trying to recall all these MLAs uh you know in Alberta
00:21:13.940 they couldn't even garner 10 000 votes per constituency right i mean we have more support
00:21:20.280 for that for alberta independence right and then you know and then on top of it i've heard already
00:21:25.220 that nenshi's so unpopular within the nvp that they're already planning to stab them in the back
00:21:30.820 before the next election and try to do what the liberals did right fire you know fire nenshi you
00:21:36.820 know like two or three months before the rip drops you know bring in some shiny new female face that
00:21:42.840 isn't you know that is like janice erwin yeah whoever like somebody you know somebody that
00:21:48.280 isn't obese and you know whatever i don't think they've got much of a bench strength man yeah but
00:21:53.560 anyway i mean that's i've heard rumblings that that's that might be what's going on in the
00:21:57.640 background there i think i kind of think that nenshi's kind of dead man walking i mean the
00:22:02.380 other thing that was really funny and i think was hugely embarrassing for him and i don't know why
00:22:06.280 he did his health his health care you know is private but he actually publicly yeah yeah he
00:22:12.020 publicly admitted that his doctor was prescribing him ivermectin off-label and my buddy eric bouchard
00:22:17.980 if you ever see it did a great speech in the alberta legislature making you know praising
00:22:22.640 ivermectin as a world-class drug and listing the nobel prizes and it's one and all this stuff and
00:22:29.300 then talking about you know in fact it's so good that you know that mr nenshi's using it off-label
00:22:34.340 compared to when he and his caucus were calling it horse pace horse paste right right so you know
00:22:40.000 not so very long ago either i mean very long ago and then on top of it when we talk about not so
00:22:45.360 very long ago as a lawyer this is very serious i am still representing doctors who are being
00:22:51.080 persecuted by the college of physicians and surgeons for allegedly prescribing ivermectin
00:22:57.360 during um uh you know during uh covid uh because it was off-label and nenshi's doctor apparently
00:23:05.160 can get away with off-label use of ivermectin just fine and uh you know the college of physicians
00:23:10.820 and surgeons isn't coming after him so it just goes to show the double standard right it seems
00:23:17.020 to me that uh ahs and the college in all alberta is 100 corrupt i mean i've done a couple of
00:23:23.960 episodes with dr mackis to william mackis he's leaving yeah he's leaving alberta because he's
00:23:29.960 just being treated so terribly there and all he's trying to do is cure cancer yeah but anyway let's
00:23:35.740 talk about the first nations chiefs from alberta getting on a plane i'm not sure if if they took a
00:23:44.140 first class flight to the uk probably but they got on a plane they went to the uk they actually got a
00:23:52.740 meeting with the king yeah and complained to the king about daniel smith somehow uh subverting
00:24:02.460 justice or subverting the constitution of our country and because sovereignty is is illegal or
00:24:08.580 unconstitutional and what the king said was oh i'm concerned let me know more
00:24:14.000 yeah too much what was that all about what were they trying to do with that well first of all i
00:24:19.600 think king chuck was way out over his skis on that one right because quite frankly i think it's
00:24:25.420 unconstitutional completely inappropriate uh you know for charles to interfere in the internal
00:24:31.560 political affairs of the province of alberta you know the other thing is he's not he's not endearing
00:24:36.880 himself to people within the independence movement because there's a lot of you know when we talk
00:24:41.420 about that soft soft middle there's a lot of people in that soft middle that would rather be
00:24:45.960 the commonwealth of alberta and um you know and retain some sort of relationship with the crown
00:24:52.420 you know simply promote our lieutenant governor to governor general uh you know have a new
00:24:57.580 bicameral legislature and elected executive but we could call the elected executive person a prime
00:25:02.880 minister or whatever it is right change our system away from west the westminster system
00:25:07.820 but at the same time maintain a relationship with the crown but when charles is meddling in the
00:25:13.280 internal affairs of alberta i mean he's making people so angry it makes the you know it certainly
00:25:18.880 gives a lot more ammunition to the people that are pure republicans that want nothing to do with
00:25:23.720 the monarchy after independence right so you know i don't think he did himself any favors um you know
00:25:29.760 with that and quite frankly i i think danielle smith should have sent a letter of protest uh
00:25:35.700 through the lieutenant governor and you know asked king charles to please mind his own business
00:25:41.280 and not to meddle in the internal affairs of the people of Alberta.
00:25:46.960 You know, this is our discussion.
00:25:48.420 It's not his discussion.
00:25:49.620 And, you know, and he shouldn't be, you know, you know, he needs to realize that, you know,
00:25:54.980 44 chiefs do not necessarily represent the interests of every First Nations person in Alberta.
00:26:02.120 I can guarantee you that we have far more treaty people in Alberta that have signed the petition
00:26:10.100 than there are treaty chiefs in alberta like you know we there's thousands of first nations people
00:26:15.660 that have signed the petition as far as we know to date and we have you know for uh you know metis
00:26:19.980 people we have treaty people out actively canvassing out actively promoting alberta
00:26:25.620 independence because they're not happy with uh the present system and who can blame them well so
00:26:31.800 what was the game here then i mean these all of these first nations and 44 chiefs get together
00:26:36.840 and do this and they had that press conference with nenshi too on the on the steps of the
00:26:41.360 legislature in edmonton a couple of weeks ago as well i mean what you you have a unique relationship
00:26:46.480 with first nations in alberta you've spent a great deal of your career as a lawyer uh working with
00:26:52.260 them and i'm just trying to figure all of this out i mean as you've mentioned before you know
00:26:58.160 if alberta does manage to pull away from canada those treaty rights don't go anywhere no that's
00:27:04.680 well that's the whole thing right and on top of it if you read the value of freedom document that
00:27:08.960 was prepared uh you know uh by alberta prosperity project to demonstrate to everybody how much
00:27:14.500 better off alberta would be as a free and independent country uh you know that document
00:27:18.900 expressly states that uh you know that the treaties will be respected and not only that
00:27:24.340 it would provide an opportunity for treaty first nations to come to the table and negotiate things
00:27:31.560 that they've wanted for decades right including constitutionalized resource revenue sharing
00:27:38.080 that could see revenue to their communities triple right but instead of you know look and i and to be
00:27:44.140 clear again because of my career and because of you know what i've seen in terms of the poverty
00:27:48.820 of indigenous nations in alberta as a result of the way that they've been mistreated by canada
00:27:54.860 the way that the treaties have been violated by canada etc right i wouldn't be doing this if i
00:28:01.260 did not believe in my heart that the lives of treaty first nations people would be better off
00:28:06.080 in a free and independent alberta than they are under the current paternalistic uh system uh that
00:28:12.800 has been imposed on them you know by ottawa through the indian act and you know and it's not even the
00:28:18.060 indian act so much it's the indian affairs bureaucracy and the federal bureaucracy i mean
00:28:22.440 you know who in their right mind would think that federal bureaucrats you know um can take care of
00:28:28.020 anybody right in a way that makes any sense yeah well they've never shown any signs of being able
00:28:34.180 to do that like i you know what did reagan say i'm here from the government and i'm here to help
00:28:38.760 i mean those are the words that you you don't want to hear no i'm sorry go ahead man no all right
00:28:46.160 danielle smith is in a bad spot right now in my opinion and so she keeps trying you know she puts
00:28:53.500 little morsels out there and what i say about danielle smith i mean if alberta does wind up
00:28:58.500 staying within canada that she's probably an asset for alberta going forward if the if the
00:29:04.580 whole movement fails and i'm not saying that it will i'm just saying if right because there's
00:29:09.540 always possibilities going either way she puts morsels out there like yesterday when she made
00:29:14.560 the maid announcement for example and this mou which we all know is never going to succeed
00:29:20.000 We know Carney is going to leave the oil on the ground.
00:29:22.840 He's a net zero guy, and he's never going to change that stance.
00:29:25.800 I mean, he's responsible for GFONS and all of the other net zero,
00:29:29.640 almost all of the other net zero organizations there are in the world
00:29:33.560 because he was the climate special envoy for the UN for, what, four or five years, right?
00:29:39.040 So we know that's never going to change.
00:29:42.060 But what we've got with Danielle Smith right now
00:29:45.160 is the Alberta sovereignty movement not happy with her
00:29:48.800 because she continues to be this this federalist premier but on the other hand how is how is the
00:29:54.840 NDP like targeting her for being this separatist premier when she has clearly stated time and time
00:30:01.560 and time again that she wants Canada or Alberta to stay within Canada I mean that's that's got to
00:30:06.680 be well and on top of it she came out the other week and actually flat out said that you know
00:30:11.100 like somebody you know said well madam premier what about what Mr. Nenshi says that you need
00:30:15.900 to come out and say that you support you know that you're that you're against independence
00:30:19.760 and she goes every i'm you know i am leading you know the anti-independence movement every time
00:30:25.260 i do something to improve our relationship with ottawa i'm leading the anti you know like basically
00:30:30.460 leading the anti-independence movement i am you know i am leading through my action against
00:30:35.740 independence i mean so that's i mean that's kind of where she's at and i mean a lot of us
00:30:40.200 are you know think that she's screwed us again i mean she's screwed everybody in the wild rose
00:30:45.680 party when she crossed the floor to the to the pcs and she literally got elected premier in alberta
00:30:51.200 by courting the independence vote i mean my understanding you know um through various people
00:30:56.420 that i know that were involved in her leadership campaign that you know basically the entire
00:31:00.900 wexit list right party list was danielle's leadership campaign list so um you know and
00:31:08.760 then when she was running and again she runs for premier she comes to that debate that was put on
00:31:13.520 by APP hosted by Ezra Levant she's pandering to all of the separatists in the room saying oh yes
00:31:20.940 and Ezra says well what's the or else Danielle what's the or else to Ottawa oh the or else is
00:31:26.080 Dennis Modry in the APP so saying basically that if Ottawa doesn't behave themselves you know we're
00:31:32.100 going to be going full-blown independence and of course you know she didn't mean any of it it was
00:31:37.060 just cynical pandering to the people that she needed to get elected because you know keep in
00:31:42.780 mind at the time and i was there right so you had brian gene who's probably you know as smart as my
00:31:47.980 tabletop right um comes into a room full of separatists that basically says that his reason
00:31:53.580 to be there is to be on the record and to stare the separatists in the face and tell us we're all
00:31:57.980 a bunch of idiots for thinking that alberta should leave canada right so brian gene's supporters were
00:32:03.420 all fervently anti-independence right then you had um uh taves right and uh you know taves was
00:32:10.280 a kennyite so kenny had his hand up his butt making his mouth move right so he was just a
00:32:14.760 puppet for kenny federalist right rayjan swani right who's basically as far left as the ndp i
00:32:22.580 mean all of her people were were federalists so the only candidates that basically you know were
00:32:28.380 being supported by the independence movement were danielle smith because she lied to enough people
00:32:34.120 to convince them that she would support independence before she stabbed everybody in
00:32:38.020 the back right and todd lowen who i was supporting because i knew he was the only guy that was
00:32:42.920 running that was genuine in his you know in his belief and his statement that alberta would be
00:32:47.900 better off outside of canada and he'd pursue that policy so you know danielle was she was a leader
00:32:53.900 on the basis of people in the independence movement she was elected premier by the
00:32:59.420 independence movement she ran on rob anderson's so-called free alberta strategy which was all
00:33:05.940 about preparing alberta for independence and then she does the bait and switch instead of the you
00:33:12.080 know the sovereign alberta act it's the sovereign alberta within a united canada act right and
00:33:17.880 again just stabbed everybody in the back because that's what she does i just kind of you know i'm
00:33:24.020 just trying to figure out why these federalists are so staunch in their beliefs and the only thing
00:33:31.180 that i can think of and when we sit down and actually have a logical argument about this
00:33:35.320 when you know we say alberta separate this is what it's going to be and you lay out all the
00:33:42.400 benefits of that plan as opposed to staying within this woke nightmare country right the
00:33:48.440 woke media and the woke institutions and the woke judges and all of that stuff the excessive
00:33:54.100 taxation the you know the excessive regulation the lack of freedom you know i mean we can't even
00:34:00.420 trust that the government isn't reading our texts and on our phones now with that new legislation
00:34:05.640 that's been passed they want to be they want to be in every aspect of our lives they want to edit
00:34:11.320 they want to edit the freaking bible they want to edit the torah they want to edit the quran
00:34:15.420 heaven forbid that anybody's religious text you know has you know said something that mark miller
00:34:21.200 doesn't approve of and i said you know and i was joking around and i said well so much for paul's
00:34:27.000 letter to the corinthians and above all keep your women silent in church i said i said for a lot of
00:34:33.320 guys that's the only piece they ever get but no no that's probably hate speech now right my question
00:34:41.040 would be is the only arguments to stay within canada would be emotional right like some of the
00:34:47.740 guys i've seen the videos and some of the guys who walk up and they yell traitor to whichever
00:34:52.480 canvasser happens to be out there videoing at that moment traitor your father would be rolling
00:34:57.040 in his grave my father fought for this country and he'd be ashamed of what it's become right i
00:35:01.920 mean that's all emotional that has nothing to do with alberta albertans you know generationally
00:35:10.960 benefiting from a sovereign country um how do you defeat that because the emotional argument
00:35:18.340 as illogical as it is always seems to be the strongest it doesn't it isn't it isn't i mean
00:35:26.520 first of all i think you've got to understand that there's a very deep well of uh in alberta
00:35:32.460 of you know a very deep well of uh of eastern alienation in the province right so you know i
00:35:39.140 think these people you know the people and then you know it appears like oh you know i'm joe rogan
00:35:43.220 oh albertans are patriots they're strong patriots well a lot of that patriotism now has turned to
00:35:48.260 patriotism for alberta i mean there's a lot of people that don't consider in alberta that don't
00:35:52.600 consider themselves canadian anymore that's how bad it's gotten in this province in terms of the
00:35:57.540 misgovernance that we've we've suffered under i think you'd be hard you know i mean and obviously
00:36:02.360 we have those really super emotional people or people that have this strong attachment you know
00:36:08.040 to canada but i think you know they're finding less and less and less reason to feel that way
00:36:12.980 right and you know to the extent that um you know and again keep in mind alberta has an extremely
00:36:18.460 highly educated population i think we have more university degrees per capita of any other
00:36:23.360 province in the country certainly most post-secondary educated people of any of any
00:36:28.040 province in the country when you look at all the trade certificates and trades you know
00:36:31.660 licensed trades people in alberta i can tell you like 80 or 90 percent of the trades people in
00:36:36.600 alberta favor independence and it's like yeah and they don't have this emotional attachment to
00:36:41.140 canada they look at their you know they they look at the financial statement for their plumbing
00:36:45.720 business their electrical business or guys that are still working you know by the hour union jobs
00:36:51.080 or whatever they look at their pay stub they see how they put a red circle around how much income
00:36:55.800 tax they're paying to the government of canada and they go oh i can't wait for independence
00:37:01.200 you know that's what i say too you know when people are are asking me i go look at man um
00:37:06.240 they've just spent hundreds of millions of dollars give it to lebanon 37 million or 370 million
00:37:14.220 they gave how many billions to ukraine i mean all of the money that they're sending in one fell swoop
00:37:20.260 is more money than 5 000 people like us will ever pay in income taxes in our lifetime 69 billion
00:37:30.560 dollars plus to ukraine right and we all know that ukraine is a black hole of corruption right
00:37:37.840 it's one of the most corrupt countries in the world right yeah i mean look at all the properties
00:37:41.640 and ski resorts and yachts and all the rest of it that that zelinski owns right as an example
00:37:47.180 does anybody believe that once 69 billion dollars goes into a black box called ukraine that can't be
00:37:54.840 audited by any canadian official that can't be overseen by the rcmp that can't be accessed by
00:38:00.120 the auditor general etc etc does anybody actually believe that billions of dollars of that money
00:38:07.120 didn't find its way back into offshore bank accounts of various corrupt liberal um mps
00:38:14.240 uh hangers on um you know uh former trudeau aids you know etc etc does anybody actually believe
00:38:22.340 that didn't happen i mean if they do they've got to be the most naive people in the world
00:38:26.800 and are still wearing their stupid elbows up shirts right right so but the thing is when you
00:38:33.180 look at that you go man this is this is all the money i've ever spent in taxes in my life and
00:38:37.100 it's not my choice to spend it on taxes they take it from me and they decide to spend it like this
00:38:42.740 eventually that kind of anger and frustration will build into some kind of a tax revolt
00:38:49.200 just that argument alone if you're talking to a federalist albertan may be able to open up their
00:38:57.320 eyes a little bit no well and i oh for sure and i think i told you this story a while ago i mean
00:39:01.420 it was kind of funny i got pulled over one morning by this fresh-faced uh rookie police officer and
00:39:08.100 he was asking me why i was in such a good mood and i told him it was because i was coming back
00:39:11.720 from a really really positive meeting with a bunch of business guys about alberta independence and he
00:39:17.180 oh we support it too and what he meant was everybody on the car city police force and i
00:39:23.520 said to him i said well i bet you do i said you're capable of taking a circle around your federal tax
00:39:28.780 portion on your on your pay stub and understanding how much more money you're going to have in your
00:39:33.340 pocket at the end of at the end of the day oh absolutely hey so i mean anybody that's on you
00:39:39.620 know anybody you know that's on a wage and we say this all the time if you're if you're a nurse if
00:39:44.460 you're a police officer welder plumber pipe fitter uh electrician whatever it is just take a red pen
00:39:51.600 make a circle around your federal income tax contribution and then imagine your life with
00:39:56.300 that money in your bank account and we've actually i actually had our chief economist the guy that
00:40:01.100 i was working with with another team of bankers and economists to do the value of freedom document
00:40:07.340 so i said hey i got a question for you so i said i think this is what we want to run on
00:40:11.060 as our campaign for independence and i said what i want to know is on the basis of all of the math
00:40:19.160 and the ai model that we use to produce the value of freedom document in year one year one of alberta
00:40:24.980 independence let's imagine that's 2027 okay in year one of alberta independence on the basis of
00:40:31.440 the fiscal capacity surplus in alberta can we afford to provide all of the services outlined
00:40:38.000 in the value of freedom document including an alberta military okay um and afford to fully
00:40:44.740 cut in year one um federal income taxes eliminated entirely and double cpp and oas payments to our
00:40:53.400 seniors so anyway our economists went to work and they ran it through the model and the answer was
00:40:58.300 yeah we could afford to do that and still have a fiscal capacity surplus of 10 or 15 billion
00:41:04.320 dollars right and of course i'm talking you know so i'm talking about this and whatever and i don't
00:41:09.440 know whether you saw it or not but um that um uh pudgy guy on um this hour has 22 minutes that
00:41:16.060 looks like jason kenny is making fun of me and calling me names oh he can't even do math he's
00:41:21.240 i'm the one that sent that oh that's right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah 15 billion dollars you know
00:41:26.940 like whatever you know doesn't jeffrey rath understand that we collect 50 we collect 15
00:41:33.180 billion dollars a year in federal income tax in alberta where does he think that money's coming
00:41:38.080 from and of course my response is i don't think if you and i ever talked about this on your show
00:41:41.880 i don't think so no you sent me a clip so anyway my response to that was okay dumbass don't you
00:41:48.700 understand that alberta sends 15 billion dollars a year to quebec i said we just have to end
00:41:55.640 equalization to quebec and we can eliminate federal income tax in alberta all of which comes
00:42:01.200 with alberta independence right yeah so the math the math isn't really complicated and for anybody
00:42:07.220 to suggest that the math and the value of freedom doesn't math um is lying i mean that's all they're
00:42:14.040 doing they're just lying it's propaganda it's complete bs right um i talked to pierre um
00:42:20.260 about our value of freedom document by the way that's the leader of the bloc oh yeah that's the
00:42:27.360 No, no, that's the leader of the Parti Quebecois, who's soon to become the premier of Quebec, right?
00:42:33.500 And he said he had their economists go through our document.
00:42:37.680 And he said, well, Jeff, you know, you need to understand our economists have looked at this document.
00:42:42.600 And we actually think that Alberta will be much better off than you've set out in that document.
00:42:48.680 And I laughed and I said, well, yeah, I said, Paul, it's because we're Albertans.
00:42:52.560 We tend to under-promise and over-deliver.
00:42:55.280 But I said, you need to understand that when we prepared that document, we wanted the numbers and the math to be unassailable, right?
00:43:03.500 So we deliberately underestimated everything.
00:43:06.280 Like, as an example, you know, we didn't do a calculation as to how much better off Alberta would be economically once we kept the entire $70 billion a year that we send Ottawa in Alberta and 100% of that $70 billion a year got spent in Alberta as opposed to somewhere else.
00:43:30.120 I mean, think about that, right?
00:43:31.320 How much does Alberta get in health transfers, though?
00:43:33.940 Like, what is it, $12, $13 billion?
00:43:35.400 No, yeah, I was going to say it's almost less than $10 billion.
00:43:39.020 And the reason that I bring that up is because you've got to subtract that from the $70 billion you send, right?
00:43:43.840 So if we say $70 billion we send out and we're getting back $12 billion or $10 billion or whatever,
00:43:49.400 then that's the number we're working with.
00:43:51.220 Right, right, but still, but the point is all of that money gets spent in Alberta,
00:43:54.900 whether it's the health care money still gets spent in Alberta, right?
00:43:57.660 So it has nothing to do with what I was, you know, like, you know, I acknowledge what you're saying, right?
00:44:01.480 and apparently we get another 10 billion dollars in questionable federal services like you know my
00:44:08.120 favorite one is like federal service like the canadian armed forces is a federal service
00:44:12.520 like does anybody think the canadian army could defend alberta right i mean you know and of course
00:44:18.980 and if you look at the ridiculous scenario of uh of you know the cbc thinking we're going to be
00:44:25.020 invaded by the americans i mean canada couldn't stop canada from being invaded from the by the
00:44:30.780 united states i think we have we have far less than 10 000 combat soldiers like boots on the
00:44:36.140 ground actual infantrymen combat engineers um you know armored you know like we don't have tanks
00:44:41.360 anymore so who cares right uh you know armored corps members artillerymen you know etc etc
00:44:45.900 we have less than 10 000 of those people in uniform underarms you know in in canada right
00:44:51.800 the 101st airborne division right that i was seconded to when i was a kid right 18 000 men
00:45:00.540 under arms as a mobile light infantry unit this isn't a bunch of bureaucrats and you know put
00:45:08.180 pencil pushers in the pentagon that's 18 000 combat troops in the 101st airborne division
00:45:13.960 alone there's another 12 000 in the first mountain 10th mountain division right then you know there's
00:45:20.220 another uh 15 000 in the big red one in the first infantry of the first infantry division you know
00:45:26.560 in um um fort riley kansas right start going through you know american units that are just
00:45:33.680 based in north america and they outnumber the canadian armed forces something like 30 to 1
00:45:40.840 or 40 to 1 i mean you know it's it's it's ridiculous you know to suggest that somehow
00:45:46.880 or other you know we're being defended by the canadian army um you know is laughable so i mean
00:45:52.340 you know and that's part of the money that they claim that you know should be attributed to the
00:45:56.960 money we're getting from ottawa right like it's lunacy but again i want to get back to what i'll
00:46:01.880 get back to my point 70 billion dollars a year being spent in alberta think about all the economic
00:46:06.960 uh spinoffs that that's going to create everybody having another 33 grand a year in their back
00:46:12.200 pocket um to buy cars to buy trucks to build an addition on their home to do whatever all of that
00:46:18.460 money gets spent in alberta and generates economic development economic development and economic
00:46:23.540 spinoffs in alberta like we're not spending we're not sending money to quebec so that quebec can
00:46:29.700 offer um you know its students free university tuition that when albertan kids go to quebec and
00:46:36.520 want to go to school in quebec we have to pay foreign student fees to go to quebec our kids do
00:46:41.600 well you know well we pay for quebec kids to go to university free of charge how does that they
00:46:47.120 want to they won't allow a pipeline through there either for political reasons you know they don't
00:46:51.780 want our dirty oil they sure love our dirty money so would alberta as a nation be essentially a tax
00:46:59.180 free zone like no sales tax i mean obviously all governments require you know like governments
00:47:05.360 you know require taxes but we would have a constitution that would put strict limits in
00:47:09.700 and around government spending right um you know we would want to drastically reduce the size of
00:47:14.920 bureaucracy everybody says that ai um you know is supposed to be this wonderful thing that we
00:47:19.840 could get you know that you know you can get rid of 40 to 50 percent of your bureaucrats using ai
00:47:24.580 well it's obviously time to do that right um you know etc etc you know we would be you know but
00:47:31.200 what you know the goal would be to have alberta become the lowest taxed the lowest regulated
00:47:37.060 um country in uh you know in north or south america you know we would want you know and
00:47:44.220 And again, I always laugh because this nonsense notion that Alberta independence is driving away business.
00:47:50.780 I mean, Danielle published a thing the other day that showed that the only province in Canada that's growing jobs is Alberta.
00:48:00.180 We're up, you know, 103,000 jobs versus the rest of Canada.
00:48:04.060 They're down 33,000 jobs, right?
00:48:06.240 Let's talk about that.
00:48:07.760 I want to talk about that.
00:48:08.740 No, go ahead.
00:48:09.300 Finish your thought.
00:48:09.920 No, no, I was just going to finish the point.
00:48:11.400 And then, right, she goes on Juneau News and she acknowledges that one of the reasons that Alberta's doing so well is because of the strength of the Alberta independence movement, she's been able to strong arm Carney into getting rid of a bunch of restrictions on the Alberta economy, right?
00:48:25.760 You know, I think Carney is terrified. And I'd called, because I heard I've got some connections in Ottawa, some pretty well-placed ones actually in the House of Commons, I'm not going to name names, but they told me two months ago, they said there's going to be an election this spring.
00:48:40.760 mark my words there's going to be an election carney wants his majority but then something
00:48:46.780 odd happened and that is the alberta independence movement started to really take off and really
00:48:52.620 grow never mind what the polls are saying 20 25 30 whatever i think it's much higher than that
00:48:57.560 i personally do i've spoken to so many people it's crazy and so he's terrified basically if
00:49:05.660 carney gets a liberal majority through an election that's the we're gone we're gone
00:49:12.840 yeah totally well no and even worse i mean or even better for us right is when he bribes his
00:49:19.460 way to a majority without an election like did you see that nonsense where the liberals gave
00:49:24.740 500 million dollars to the husband of that inuit um member of parliament to cross the floor
00:49:31.820 from the um mdp to the liberals how and and the 500 million dollars supposedly is going to uh you
00:49:39.480 know a holding company that has two employees how does a holding company with two employees
00:49:45.020 spend 500 million dollars wasn't that on houses there's a modular homes or something well yeah
00:49:50.960 yeah but that's the whole point how does a two-person company have the capacity to build
00:49:55.260 500 million dollars worth of homes so i'll tell you how i'll tell you how right they're going to
00:50:00.880 do a deal with brookfield brookfield will come in right and this person will be the titular head
00:50:07.080 of this construction company where brookfield does all the work takes all the money and leaves
00:50:11.740 this guy a couple three four five ten twenty million and they take the rest right yeah that's
00:50:16.840 how that's gonna play out like you know he gets a majority man and and that's i i think alberta is
00:50:23.920 that would be the tipping point oh man if he bribes his way to a majority it's even better
00:50:28.900 than an election for us how do you see um like when this goes down and the petition goes through
00:50:37.560 it's fine you've got your signatures everything's cool and then we go to the referendum in october
00:50:41.880 and by the way i'm i was shocked about that you were saying last year that oh yeah we want it this
00:50:47.560 year we want it soon uh i think you were talking spring but october was fine keith wilson was a
00:50:52.680 little bit more conservative in his estimates he was thinking maybe 2027 so very good on you for
00:50:57.800 making that prediction how do you see provincial migration in and out do you see a lot of wokies
00:51:05.060 going well i can't stay here anymore people from alberta you know those kinds of people leaving
00:51:10.580 the province going to bc i think it's one of the reasons that we have this job growth going on in
00:51:15.580 alberta right now we have a lot of conservatives and i've met a bunch of them through them through
00:51:19.580 the independence movement that have been selling their businesses in ontario and coming to alberta
00:51:25.160 and buying businesses and restarting businesses in Alberta with money that they've taken out of
00:51:30.320 Ontario because they want to be here for independence and they want to support the
00:51:34.020 independence movement. And they see that Alberta, you know, is the only, you know, is the only sane
00:51:39.220 jurisdiction in Canada. And the Alberta independence movement has literally been like a beacon of light
00:51:44.800 to businesses in British Columbia, Ontario, Manitoba, you know, et cetera. You know,
00:51:51.260 even the maritimes to sell you know to sell your business you know in whatever communist province
00:51:56.080 you're in and bring the money to alberta and invest in in alberta and i think that's a big
00:52:01.640 part of the job growth in alberta yeah you know what i think about alberta it's just such and
00:52:07.020 always has been but i think more recently it's become just this wild hub of activity it's just
00:52:14.680 got a buzz going on even more than normal i was talking to dallas brody the leader of one bc
00:52:19.560 she was on the conservative convention i really quite enjoyed her she's yeah yeah she's pretty
00:52:24.240 cool and so she uh i said so she was at the convention i said how was that for you she goes
00:52:29.380 i can't even believe the difference you know you go to a place like bc which is run by the
00:52:34.700 communists manitoba same thing run by the communists and there's just such a drabness to it
00:52:40.080 and you know the background of bc is hilarious because it's beautiful there the mountains the
00:52:45.680 trees i mean it's just a gorgeous gorgeous province and yet somehow she describes a drabness
00:52:51.160 in society because of the way it's governed and alberta is go ahead today bc's population is
00:52:58.340 shrinking and they're coming to alberta right people are packing up selling their shit in bc
00:53:02.640 and moving to alberta okay so do you see a lot of the wokes leaving alberta so the population
00:53:09.700 people remain the same and all we say is don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out
00:53:15.060 right because i'm thinking about afterwards and i know you don't want to talk about afterwards
00:53:19.880 because you're so busy working on making sure that this is a successful petition and then a
00:53:24.580 successful referendum but afterwards when you win yeah um what does the political landscape
00:53:31.400 look like once we get past the united conservative party and the ndp i mean would the ndp even
00:53:36.640 continue existing in in an independent yeah but again you know the the form of constitution that
00:53:43.580 we're looking at setting up um you know would certainly limit the amount of damage that any
00:53:49.460 of them could ever do like we'd be looking at having an elected legislature um based on uh
00:53:54.740 you know population we'd have an elected senate based on regions so the cities you know would
00:54:00.580 have you know the you know senators based on the region that they happen to be in it'd be two per
00:54:06.160 region so the amount of power the cities would have would be drastically reduced um which you
00:54:12.820 know reduces you know the ability of all the welfare collecting you know woke folk you know
00:54:17.560 to ruin the lives of those of us that live in rural Alberta right and then we would have an
00:54:22.440 elected um executive and you know we sort of modeled this on the U.S. system but we'd have
00:54:27.820 some differences right like nationally in Alberta we would have you know we would do what some of
00:54:33.040 the states do we have an elected attorney general and we would have an elected auditor general who
00:54:38.560 would be specifically tasked with jailing crooked politicians right they wouldn't be members of the
00:54:44.100 cabinet they wouldn't be part of the government right they would be have a real external watch
00:54:49.420 dog role that they would be expected to fulfill constitutionally if they wanted to maintain their
00:54:55.540 jobs right um you know we bring in you know and because you know we've you know we've had 250
00:55:00.940 years of experience watching you know uh uh the problems with the american system you know we we
00:55:06.800 would have a line item veto for the executive so you know you can't have you know all of the
00:55:11.420 pork barreling that goes on you know in the united states right where you know literally no you know
00:55:17.400 you can't have this because it doesn't make sense or you know your writing already has like you know
00:55:22.260 your constituency already has three hospitals you don't get two more just because you traded
00:55:26.880 favors with somebody in the back room right get rid of the lobbying like no more yeah oh absolutely
00:55:32.500 right and then you know somebody actually said this quite seriously the other day somebody's
00:55:37.300 doing this poll like you know what do you um you know what do you think we should call our
00:55:41.540 new leader should be president or whatever and i said servant in chief you know like i you know i
00:55:47.660 want whoever is running this place to understand that they work for us and they're not some
00:55:52.780 temporarily elected monarch that gets to lord over us the way that queen danielle does and
00:55:58.780 you know and king carney does in ottawa right like you know i want humble leaders that are
00:56:04.120 humble servant leaders working for the people and if they aren't working for the people they're
00:56:09.400 going to be out on their ass that's what i want you know interestingly uh i've floated this idea
00:56:14.480 on the show a few times right i know how to get rid of the rot in ottawa and that is move the
00:56:21.700 capital. Move it. Get it out of there. All those bureaucrats. Can you imagine those bureaucrats
00:56:28.040 moving to a place like Kenora, Ontario, the new capital of Canada? Of course not.
00:56:33.240 Weaver in Saskatchewan. Weaver in Saskatchewan. Right. Like not a chance. Right. They'd be called
00:56:38.840 out every second. They opened their mouths and tried to lord anything over anybody.
00:56:43.360 Exactly. And that's that's what we need. So would you like in an independent Alberta,
00:56:48.780 the nation of Alberta would you say okay Edmonton's no longer the capital we need something a little
00:56:53.700 bit more humble uh something more down to earth you put it in Red Deer Lethbridge uh yeah wherever
00:57:02.320 right I mean I mean there's there's we're talking even you know like Red Deer's possible um but
00:57:07.680 again like you know we'd have the senate maybe have the senate sitting you know uh Edmonton the
00:57:13.480 legislature in calgary the chief the the you know the the chief executive in red deer or medicine
00:57:19.600 hat or wherever i mean we you know figure figure it out but i think you know again i think you're
00:57:24.760 right i think we want to spread the bureaucrats out across the again across the province and not
00:57:30.180 have the you know this incestuous mess that we have in edmonton right now i mean you get that
00:57:35.820 group think going right you know amongst all of them and if the woke group think starts to
00:57:40.960 permeate through that particular class of people then they all start thinking that way that's the
00:57:46.020 problem with that's the problem with the media right now jeff i mean like the media in toronto
00:57:50.340 you know what did you see who was that guy former cbc guy who was testifying at committee
00:57:56.780 last week i forget his name but he i didn't see it he mentioned that that gilmore dude is it
00:58:03.040 gilmore the bald-headed guy on the cbc i can't remember his name anyway he said that uh well
00:58:08.640 during the convoy well tamara leach apparently she's got a different last name and and so and
00:58:13.640 dude said well that's generally the case with people who live in trailers right that kind of
00:58:20.900 bullshit right yeah i know i love tamara yeah she's awesome and she made a i actually texted
00:58:28.140 her and said did you see this and she goes yeah i'm talking about it right now on rebel i thought
00:58:31.920 it was funny but i mean just that kind of attitude that permeates through that class of people they're
00:58:38.060 the ones who are talking to canadians about what canada is right and they love like they love
00:58:45.200 talking like oh he's a yahoo he wears a cowboy hat he wow right yeah oh boss hog blah blah okay
00:58:52.720 asshole i have i have an honors degree in political science calling your boss hog oh yeah yeah no that's
00:58:58.720 this this hour has 22 minutes it's like uh and you know anybody that has the least bit of a
00:59:03.960 metabolic issue they they like they trot that out every couple years because they're not the least
00:59:07.780 been original but that's that's one that i get and uh you know and i don't care right it's whatever
00:59:13.260 it is but they try to make you out to be some yokel and it's like okay as well i have an honors
00:59:17.200 degree in political science from the university of alberta i have an honors degree in law from
00:59:21.120 the london school of economics okay so i think i'm pretty much better educated than you are
00:59:25.420 and that one case is at the supreme court of canada so call me whatever names you want try
00:59:30.380 to make me out to be whatever yokel you want to you know you want to say that i am but you know
00:59:35.100 i'm a very well educated very successful uh you know barrister at the top of my game professionally
00:59:42.100 um and have been for years i've won cases that other don't know you know what right i'm we're
00:59:48.660 all perfectly familiar with your resume but i don't don't let them know that because we don't
00:59:53.100 want to let them we don't want to let them see you coming yeah no but you know one of my favorite
01:00:00.360 ones too because you come on to these podcasts every time i go to a speaking engagement you
01:00:04.640 know it's like somebody will come up to me it's like oh my goodness you're so much taller in
01:00:10.280 person whenever we see you on videos like i just thought you're really short and i said no no no
01:00:15.920 no i'm much taller and fatter in person because you're watching me on this little five inch screen
01:00:22.040 unbelievable i find it all pretty funny okay man uh that's it best of luck with everything let's
01:00:29.800 stay in touch let's do this again real soon uh let's do it when we're getting close to the
01:00:34.940 deadline and i know that you guys don't make the numbers public but can you give us a little bit
01:00:41.200 of a hint as to where you're at right now with the petition i've even just a little you know what
01:00:46.400 um everybody keeps needs to keep working like we're a hundred thousand signatures behind that's
01:00:51.500 that's what i'm telling everybody like we need everybody maximum effort for the next six weeks
01:00:56.480 Because, you know, every hundred thousand signatures we get over what we need is that much more political power that we have in the province to tell the government of Alberta that we want a standalone one question referendum without any of these nonsense, you know, tell Danielle Smith to do her damn job questions.
01:01:19.400 You know, I mean, think about it.
01:01:20.220 I mean, all these competing questions they're putting on there,
01:01:22.700 that's all stuff she campaigned on under that Free Alberta strategy.
01:01:26.520 It's like, Danielle, you don't need referendum questions to do your effing job.
01:01:31.500 Just do your job.
01:01:32.960 She's just trying to muddle the issue, though.
01:01:34.520 I mean, and it's intentional.
01:01:36.760 The one question we have to campaign against and tell everybody not to answer
01:01:40.720 is they're putting a question on there,
01:01:42.520 would you like to see us try to reopen the Canadian Constitution?
01:01:46.100 you know because if everybody votes yes to that it completely negates the independence question
01:01:51.660 and then we're offside with the clarity act it's a deliberate sleazy cynical plan of rob anderson's
01:01:58.540 i know this because i spoke to him about a year ago in the premier's office and that's what they're
01:02:03.340 trying to do to defeat alberta independence it's deliberate and everybody in alberta needs to be
01:02:08.600 really annoyed about this because it's really really bad have you been visited or had any
01:02:14.800 meetings with the alberta elite i recall the story you told me last time oh mike mike binion
01:02:20.620 now is writing uh posts on uh whatever it is on um uh linkedin about uh you know trying to justify
01:02:29.040 that bullshit meeting he called at the ranchman's club last uh you know last year uh you know
01:02:34.220 claiming that he wasn't trying to manipulate anybody or control anything and we need to have
01:02:38.820 respectful dialogue and blah blah blah it's like you know as far as i'm concerned if you're a
01:02:43.240 federalist you're not on the team and um you know you need to you know lead follower is exactly what
01:02:48.580 i told them at the meeting lead follower and get out of the way because you're not helping
01:02:52.080 all right brother thank you for doing this tonight on short notice i appreciate you coming
01:02:56.780 my pleasure shadow i always love coming on your program okay jeff we'll talk again soon all right
01:03:02.400 okay there's jeff rath the alberta prosperity project alberta sovereignty i still have more
01:03:09.940 for you guys. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to play in the extension tonight some of
01:03:16.420 the Pierre Poly of clips from the Joe Rogan experience. Because in case you haven't been
01:03:22.440 able to sit down and watch all of that, and you haven't got two and a half hours to do that,
01:03:27.060 we're going to play you some select clips that I picked out earlier today. But we're going to do
01:03:31.000 that in the extension. We can't do that on the big social media. And the reason for that is because
01:03:35.040 Joe Rogan keeps a very tight grip on his copyright, as he should.
01:03:38.960 He's the number one podcast in the world, and you need to protect your property.
01:03:42.140 So we will do that, but in the extension on ShadowDavis.com for all access members and
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01:03:52.380 It's the Shadow at Night community.
01:03:54.940 We do have some more stuff for you that I want to get to in one minute.
01:04:00.160 We will be right back.
01:04:05.040 We'll be right back.
01:04:35.040 We'll be right back.
01:05:05.040 all right welcome back couple of things uh house of commons is not sitting this week
01:05:14.540 pierre pauliev has been on his tour of uh united states of america not that that's the reason it's
01:05:19.940 just that this was not a sitting week for the house of commons they'll be back next week trying
01:05:24.480 to ram c9 through the house of commons once it comes back from uh committee for its final time
01:05:29.920 that should probably happen monday or tuesday i mentioned this earlier in the week and then
01:05:34.680 it goes to Senate. Now, the Senate may decide they want to study that bill more to see if it's
01:05:40.660 valid, maybe make some amendments to it. They might want to study it in committee. Either way,
01:05:46.560 or they might not. They might just ramrod it through, and it could be law as of next week.
01:05:52.060 That is C9, the hate speech bill in Canada, which will, in my opinion, really chill,
01:06:01.480 Maybe not completely freeze, but really chill, free speech in this country.
01:06:06.460 And now the liberals are head up on this new C-22, which allows government officials to contact telecommunications companies to put traps on your phones, on your computers, without notice, without any kind of reasoning except for suspicion.
01:06:31.480 to take all of your information off your devices.
01:06:39.060 And it seems the police chief of the largest city in the country
01:06:43.620 is right behind Bill C-22.
01:06:45.760 His name is Myron Demke.
01:06:47.440 And he, along with Gary Alphabet, our Minister of Public Safety,
01:06:50.980 held a press conference today, and here is part of that.
01:06:53.920 It's a pleasure to host you and Minister of Public Safety,
01:06:57.040 Gary and Anderson Gary to discuss Bill C 22 today in many ways new technology
01:07:04.600 and new ways of communicating have made lives easier but they also made it
01:07:10.900 easier for criminals to plan their activities and avoid justice we are
01:07:16.420 seeing bad actors use digital tools for all kinds of crime including drug
01:07:22.060 trafficking extortion child pornography hate crime extremism and more what you've
01:07:29.940 been asking for from the federal government is partnership and is to for
01:07:34.720 us to listen to you and to your colleagues on how to best protect
01:07:39.760 Canadians and one of the tools that law enforcement leaders across Canada and
01:07:45.400 particularly the Toronto Police Service and the Toronto Police Association have
01:07:49.100 been asking for is lawful access as a tool that will enable them to ensure better public safety
01:07:57.020 we know that over the last three decades law enforcement has been hamstrung in their ability
01:08:05.320 to investigate as we know that technology has evolved this is no longer the time when they have
01:08:13.240 not been hamstrung all you had to do was get a court order from a judge if you had a suspicion
01:08:21.300 and you had to convince that judge that this was the right thing to do with a good deal of evidence
01:08:27.320 you say to the judge look at you know what we we think this guy is dealing fentanyl here
01:08:31.160 and here's the reasons behind it we want a court order so we can go into his phone his computer
01:08:37.300 and that was the process well what c22 does is it removes that judicial jurance jurisprudence
01:08:44.400 from the process which is not good we are carrying pagers or even antiquated cell phones we are in an
01:08:54.540 era where we have smartphones uh with just with our phones we have so much information that's
01:09:01.120 available to us every desktop computer and every technology out there have
01:09:07.960 significant abilities not just to communicate but also to deter those who
01:09:18.800 use crime as a tool to be able to conceal information that will be
01:09:28.880 critically important for law enforcement our laws are stuck in a century while technology
01:09:34.580 has essentially moved forward that's not true you know so this is these past two bills c22 now
01:09:42.000 and c9 before are the trust us bills c9 trust us we know what hate is we can determine what
01:09:50.440 hate is we know what a hate symbol means we know when there's an intent for somebody out there
01:09:56.200 making hate speech. We know. No, you don't. Because hate is subjective. I've explained that
01:10:02.320 I can't even remember how many times. And yet the government just keeps on going with their
01:10:07.460 nonsense. Well, C-22 is the same way in that we have to trust them to do the right thing.
01:10:14.420 Why are you in my phone? Why are you in my computer? Well, we suspect you of this. Why?
01:10:20.180 Oh, you don't like me. You don't like my political views. And that's what we worry about. I do not.
01:10:25.480 and the way the trust is right now in this country,
01:10:28.420 I think for a vast majority of Canadians is
01:10:31.720 we don't trust government, we don't trust politicians,
01:10:34.680 we don't trust institutions, we don't trust judges or cops,
01:10:38.740 we don't trust anything.
01:10:40.800 And you're asking us to do that with C-22.
01:10:44.860 Just leave it to us.
01:10:46.120 We know who to investigate and who not to.
01:10:48.020 And yeah, sure, why not?
01:10:49.080 But we want you to go through more channels
01:10:51.120 to make sure that you find one corrupt cop out there.
01:10:54.760 And we know that there are corrupt cops.
01:10:57.440 I mean, there have been cop busts in the last month in Toronto, a couple times now.
01:11:02.920 Can we trust the, and they're only human.
01:11:05.660 I'm not going to sit here and say they're all corrupt because we know they're not.
01:11:09.340 But some of them are.
01:11:11.620 Not even the majority, the minority, but that's all it takes for some corrupt cop who you look at the wrong way to go,
01:11:18.100 you know what, I'm going to investigate that guy.
01:11:20.820 Through C-22 I can, I can get right into his phone right now.
01:11:25.240 That's not cool.
01:11:26.980 Nicholas Wandsbutter is an attorney in Ontario,
01:11:30.080 and he has a show on YouTube called Don't Talk TV.
01:11:33.360 We had him on the show once a few years back.
01:11:35.800 And here he is talking about C-22.
01:11:38.240 Take a look at Bill C-22,
01:11:40.600 which was introduced to the House of Commons on March the 12th, 2026.
01:11:45.680 I first heard about this from Wiretap Media.
01:11:48.280 Unreal, the government announces evasive spying Bill C-22,
01:11:53.160 Two, expanding CSIS's powers, and here's what it will do.
01:11:56.660 So here they have information for a search warrant, 47 sub 1,
01:12:01.720 used to require a judge or a justice being satisfied on information in form 1,
01:12:05.800 that being an information to obtain.
01:12:07.700 Now the act is amended by replacing a public officer who's been appointed
01:12:14.540 or designated to administer and force a federal or provincial law
01:12:17.200 with just a public officer.
01:12:19.280 the real problem is this supporting authorized access to information act so it's a new act that's
01:12:27.200 being introduced and we'll just skip right down here to the obligations on core providers that
01:12:35.160 that being all the classes of electronic communication providers that were outlined
01:12:41.040 by wiretap media that and this is where we start getting into this just no oversight whatsoever
01:12:49.140 no need for any parliamentary debate, no need for a judge's review, the governor and council can just make regulations regarding these individuals with respect to making them develop, implement, assess, test, maintain operational and technical capabilities, including capabilities related to extracting and organizing information that is authorized to be accessed.
01:13:12.340 So this is forcing the telecommunications providers to essentially spy on you and be ready to provide information as requested or demanded by the government.
01:13:23.720 Of course, subsection B, the installation, use, operation, management, assessment, testing, and maintenance of any device, equipment, or other thing that may enable an authorized person to access information.
01:13:36.060 So they can make regulations to force the telecommunications providers to install,
01:13:42.700 use, operate, manage, assess, test, and maintain devices or equipment that will
01:13:51.260 steal all of your data, spy on everything, review everything.
01:13:54.940 Long story short, it is every bit as bad as Wiretapped Media suggested in their ex post.
01:14:05.500 anybody thinking about moving to alberta right now or maybe just getting out of canada altogether
01:14:14.400 i mean you move to alberta you think all right we're gonna have our own country and then they
01:14:18.060 they lose the referendum that would suck you'd still be stuck in this country with
01:14:25.160 at least three more years of mark carney and a majority government
01:14:28.520 unless
01:14:30.700 Polyev is able to get
01:14:33.100 some kind of traction out of his Joe Rogan interview
01:14:35.260 we'll wait and see if the polls change on that
01:14:37.320 I doubt it
01:14:37.980 the left wing corporate media has been all over that
01:14:41.060 for the last 24 hours
01:14:42.500 is Canada
01:14:44.400 being run by China
01:14:47.160 or is it being run
01:14:49.200 by
01:14:49.760 the WEF
01:14:53.600 city of London cabal
01:14:55.020 based in
01:14:56.780 Switzerland
01:14:57.500 or the city of london tough to say but this is a very interesting piece that we got today
01:15:07.800 from committee which is still on mp michael cooper of the conservative party of canada
01:15:13.700 talking to a former csis officer called gary clement about chinese infiltration remember
01:15:19.840 that mark carney in this mou memo of understanding he assigned with china includes cooperation on
01:15:26.460 security and policing now why on earth would you sign a memo of understanding with china
01:15:33.340 they're not exactly our friends it's okay to trade with them but that's as far as i would go
01:15:39.740 i wouldn't bring them in to start security or military any kind of cooperation in that way
01:15:47.380 because they will just move in lock stock and barrel and you won't be able to get them out
01:15:52.820 So here's Michael Cooper talking to this former CSIS agent about how bad Chinese infiltration actually is in this country. This was today.
01:16:01.120 The so-called strategic partnership with the Beijing dictatorship includes an agreement on law enforcement cooperation between the RCMP and Beijing's Ministry of Public Security.
01:16:13.540 For the record, this is the same Ministry of Public Security that was involved in operating several illegal police stations in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver to spy, harass, intimidate and coerce.
01:16:25.660 I ask for communities. Do I have that right?
01:16:27.840 That is correct, yes.
01:16:28.840 Okay. Is it accurate to say that Beijing's overriding consideration for law enforcement is to advance the interests of the Chinese Communist Party?
01:16:40.720 Law enforcement in China is part of the PRC apparatus.
01:16:46.100 You can't separate them from the government, and they do not operate under the rule of law.
01:16:52.140 I experienced it firsthand. I experienced it on one occasion when just probably a year before I took my retirement.
01:17:01.880 I was tasked with meeting a delegation from China.
01:17:06.240 This is the last time they came over looking for people under an alleged economic offense, and I put it in quotations.
01:17:14.600 And they wanted – they basically literally sat down in a room.
01:17:18.660 There was four Chinese from the delegation and stated, we expect you to identify where they are and we'll look after it from there, quote, unquote.
01:17:29.560 So, as you noted, we're not dealing with a regime that respects the rule of law, due process, judicial independence, or other legal and ethical constraints that our law enforcement are bound by.
01:17:44.140 So is it fair to say that when Canada cooperates with such a system, with such a regime, we're not an equal partner?
01:17:52.380 Not even close.
01:17:53.500 They have a total different agenda than what we have, and I think it puts – I don't see how the RCMP can operate under this secret agreement.
01:18:04.380 I think it's flawed and it's dangerous to our – not our economic, but our security interests.
01:18:11.020 Okay. So recently, 10 Hong Kong diaspora organizations sent an open letter to Mark Carney
01:18:19.520 expressing deep fear and anxiety about this agreement. In essence, they are concerned that
01:18:25.800 Beijing will use this agreement to target political opponents of the regime in Canada
01:18:30.660 under the guise of law enforcement. You provided, I think, an example of that. Would you agree that
01:18:37.300 those concerns are valid? Absolutely. In fact, that's the reason I believe the police stations
01:18:43.060 were set up here in the first place. It's to push their agenda, and we have to understand
01:18:49.720 that they have a number of united front organizations operating in this country,
01:18:55.920 which also support anything that the alleged police stations would do. Well, here we have
01:19:02.220 Canada's biggest security threat. We have a prime minister entering into an agreement
01:19:06.320 with Canada's biggest security threat on matters of security and law enforcement.
01:19:10.560 It would seem to me if there's any matter in which Canada should be reticent
01:19:15.540 about getting involved with Beijing and cooperating on,
01:19:18.600 it's on matters of security and law enforcement.
01:19:20.660 Would you agree with that?
01:19:21.780 100% agree.
01:19:23.960 I want you to put yourself into the mind, if you can, of an elbows-up person.
01:19:30.420 assuming that there's a little bit of logic left in this person let's just say that
01:19:38.340 so if you're an elbows up mark carney supporter and you saw that and you go
01:19:43.500 why would he do that i mean this is a massive security threat to us what
01:19:47.400 would you be able to just kind of brush that off and go okay all right that's fine i mean you know
01:19:54.160 what that's one thing i don't agree with but overall you know i'd say he's still doing well
01:20:01.780 okay keep that in mind and then this next clip of jameson greer he is the chief trade negotiator
01:20:08.540 under the trump white house talking about trade with mexico and canada and listen to what he says
01:20:14.980 this week uh when i spoke with you a couple of months ago you told me that it was likely going
01:20:21.020 to be bilateral deals, U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada. Of course, the president talked about this
01:20:28.220 throughout his second term, but he did these deals in his first term. Discussions surrounding
01:20:33.500 the security of North American supply chains there as well. What can you tell us about those
01:20:37.420 negotiations? Well, right after this TV spot, Maria, I'm going back to my office and I'm meeting
01:20:43.240 with the Mexican Minister of Economy and his team. This week, we are having our first formal
01:20:48.660 negotiations with Mexico on the USMCA and we are doing it just as the president said we're having
01:20:54.460 talks separately with Canada but we've moved along with Mexico Canada is behind on this with Mexico
01:21:01.080 we're already at the stage of some formal talks we're going to be talking about rules of origin
01:21:04.760 which is a really a term of art that talks about how much how much content in the goods that are
01:21:09.620 being traded between the United States and Mexico are from United States and Mexico we just don't
01:21:13.740 want mexico to become a hub for uh you know goods imported from vietnam or china somewhere else if
01:21:19.800 we're going to have some kind of a deal it has to be a deal for mexico and the united states and
01:21:24.220 the goods should be made up of content for mexico the united states now now given the move in oil
01:21:28.440 prices and such canada's way behind not even into formal negotiations at all in a bilateral deal
01:21:36.000 yet. And I've got a feeling that when those Kuzma slash USMCA negotiations or renegotiations
01:21:44.160 begin in July, Trump is going to not even bother with that, really. He's not going to send a
01:21:49.720 serious team for that, even as Canada prepares their creme de la creme, the sharpest knives
01:21:55.680 in the drawer, according to the Carney government, of people who are going to go down there and
01:22:00.200 negotiate on Canada's behalf. Trump's just going to say, ah, no, we don't want that.
01:22:07.600 What then? This is the thing that Mark Carney campaigned on last year. Elbows up. We'll get
01:22:17.060 the best deal with the United States. Nothing. Crickets. And when USMCA blows up in July,
01:22:26.500 that will be a blow to the canadian economy that we haven't seen in decades huge blow because
01:22:36.140 businesses massive companies massive corporations are going to take everything and they're going to
01:22:40.700 move to the united states investment in canada will drop to nothing as a matter of fact you know
01:22:46.340 we won't be able to attract any investment we'll be losing companies who have been here for years
01:22:52.000 based on Trump just saying,
01:22:55.020 ah, we don't need it.
01:22:58.780 Massive blow, huge blow.
01:23:01.280 So if you're that carny supporter that elbows up,
01:23:04.360 are you still able to support him?
01:23:06.880 Because he hasn't come up with a deal,
01:23:08.360 he hasn't done anything.
01:23:10.360 So he's letting Chinese police and security
01:23:13.180 into our country through that MOU he signed in January.
01:23:17.820 And he's also allowing 49,000 Chinese EVs
01:23:20.920 into the country let's not forget that each one with their own special chinese spy software
01:23:25.580 and now you can't get a deal with the united states mexico is doing it there's a threat of
01:23:32.540 no more free trade at all with the united states could you still support mark carney
01:23:37.920 i don't know and then there's this whole lgbtq thing which is pretty much a dead stick in the
01:23:47.540 United States. Look what happened to Juno News when they called a trans woman a man in one of
01:23:54.720 their stories. And this trans woman, by the way, happens to be running for mayor of the city of
01:23:59.680 Hamilton. Candace Malcolm explains. Sometimes there's just a story that's so insane that it
01:24:04.860 makes you question, like, has everybody in the country lost their mind? And why don't we tell
01:24:09.660 the truth anymore? This story is so crazy. So we'll start with the beginning. Melanie Bennett,
01:24:15.040 a reporter with Juno News broke a story of a trans identifying sex worker enters the Hamilton
01:24:20.680 mayoral race. So this is a man and he is running for mayor. He identifies as a trans femme,
01:24:28.100 born male. Now he identifies as a woman. We stated the fact that he's a male and therefore we use
01:24:34.920 he him pronouns. We believe in the truth. We believe in telling the audience the truth,
01:24:38.560 which is that this is a man. Well, he did not like that very much. He sent a very angry email
01:24:44.580 to Melanie Bennett, the reporter, and as well as myself and the Juneau News desk, demanding
01:24:50.280 that we not misgender him, saying that his government identification, his government
01:24:56.820 ID lists him as a female, including his birth certificate, social insurance number, and
01:25:01.740 his passport, all lie and say he's a woman, even though he was born man.
01:25:06.580 He says that we defamed him by accurately identifying him, and he says that he's going
01:25:11.540 to sue us for defamation. And here he is online complaining that we misgendered him and asking for
01:25:18.740 legal advice and basically just saying that he would like to sue us. I replied back saying that
01:25:24.940 our editorial policy is to tell the truth. We refuse to be bullied into submission based on
01:25:28.620 woke ideological pressures. Men are not women. Men cannot become women. We refuse to go along
01:25:33.760 with the delusion. Just because the CBC and government agencies go along with the delusion
01:25:37.900 does not mean, you know, news will, we will continue to actually report to our audience
01:25:41.620 the difference between men and women. And you, my friend, are a man. Well, he really didn't like
01:25:47.160 that because he is now posting about it on social media, trying to get attention from other woke
01:25:52.320 journalists to scream from the rooftop, oh my goodness, there's a media outlet that's telling
01:25:57.380 the truth that refers, refuses to cower to our bullying. We must stop them. We must sue them.
01:26:03.280 we must go after them. Folks, what an insane world we live in. That we can't accurately describe
01:26:08.440 a man and we can't tell the difference between a man and one. We have to pretend that men can
01:26:12.700 become women. They can't. And Juno News and myself and Melanie Bennett will continue to
01:26:16.920 report the truth because that's what we do. We tell the truth. We report the truth.
01:26:22.880 I appreciate their stance on this. Candace's stance on this. I do.
01:26:27.060 I think it's brave because in Canada, what will happen with a case like this?
01:26:33.280 That person, that dude who thinks he's a woman running for mayor of Hamilton, will file a complaint with the Human Rights Commission of Ontario, and they'll go and they'll have their hearings, and Juneau News will probably be found guilty of, what, offending this person?
01:26:54.960 and they will more than likely have to pay some kind of a hefty penalty
01:27:01.440 in the thousands of dollars.
01:27:03.240 Look at the case of Barry Neufeld in B.C.
01:27:06.620 Because that's what Canada has become.
01:27:10.660 You can get ID, federal government ID in Canada.
01:27:15.600 If you're a man, that states you're a woman,
01:27:18.120 as long as you tell them that.
01:27:19.500 now
01:27:22.260 if you're that
01:27:25.140 Carney supporter
01:27:26.100 at all of the three
01:27:29.120 things that I've mentioned
01:27:30.040 could you still support him
01:27:32.760 if you have
01:27:35.300 a little bit of logic left inside of you
01:27:37.220 one more thing
01:27:40.880 to add to the list here
01:27:42.400 great piece today from the financial
01:27:45.220 post thank you Michael for sending me this
01:27:47.020 I didn't see this myself
01:27:48.140 from gwen morgan net zero is dead that is the climate emergency plan
01:27:54.140 dead donald trump has exposed it to the world we know that there's no climate emergency yes we want
01:28:03.080 a clean environment of course we do we don't want our lakes and air polluted but we also understand
01:28:09.140 that the molecule carbon dioxide is not killing the planet net zero is dead so why is mark carney
01:28:17.720 still pushing it. The PM did abolish the consumer carbon tax, though only by shifting it to
01:28:25.040 business. So you can't say he abolished anything. Delegates at the World Climate Conference held in
01:28:33.540 1979 adopted a declaration calling on governments to foresee and prevent man-made changes to the
01:28:39.220 climate that might be adverse to the well-being of humanity. It was, in effect, a declaration of
01:28:44.960 war against oil and gas, the oil and gas industry. At the time, now again, this comes from
01:28:51.200 Gwyn Morgan, so he refers to himself. At the time, I was the president of a Calgary-headquartered
01:28:58.220 oil and gas company that I'd co-founded, as well as volunteer president of our industry's public
01:29:04.020 communication vehicle, the Independent Petroleum Association of Canada. My industry colleagues were
01:29:09.740 reluctant to take on the global climate elite, but I believe doing so was vital to the future
01:29:15.200 of our industry, which was the bedrock of Western Canada's economy. My public commentary was, of
01:29:21.000 course, condemned as evidence that I was only out to save the oil and gas industry. But it wasn't
01:29:26.640 just my responsibility as an industry leader that called me to challenge that World Climate
01:29:31.820 Conference declaration. I knew that extremely hot temperatures had been occurring long before
01:29:37.340 the first Kyoto conference, for example. In the 1920s, European immigrants settled in the verdant
01:29:43.560 grasslands of southeastern Alberta. Some of those hopeful settlers were my wife's grandparents. A
01:29:49.080 decade later, rain stopped falling and temperatures soared as high as 43 degrees Celsius. Hot, dry
01:29:56.480 winds blew precious topsoil away, spawning choking dust storms. The dirty 30s had arrived.
01:30:04.380 Starving settlers turned to eating rabbits, gophers, and anything else edible they could scrounge.
01:30:09.560 Parents took their kids to school in blinding dust storms, clutching fence lines, and breathing
01:30:14.300 through bandanas, and the wind kept blowing through the long, cold Alberta winters.
01:30:20.720 Contrary to net-zero zealots rhetoric, half of Canada's 20 hottest days predated that 1979
01:30:27.760 World Climate Conference. World Climate Change Conferences continued during the 1980s,
01:30:33.380 1990s, each featuring more alarmist rhetoric than the last. At the 1997 conference in Japan,
01:30:41.520 37 industrialized countries adopted the Kyoto Protocol, which committed them
01:30:45.660 to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels by 2012. The war on fossil fuels was
01:30:53.940 on in earnest, and it was destined to escalate to ridiculous heights. At the 2012 conference in
01:31:00.260 Qatar, the rich countries committed to reducing emissions by at least 18% below 1990 levels by
01:31:07.440 2020. The naivete of those targets is breathtaking. Countries accounting for over half of global
01:31:14.580 emissions like China, Russia, India, continued their rapid growth without constraint. Virtually
01:31:20.680 all other Asian, Middle Eastern, and South American nations had no intention of playing
01:31:25.020 the Kyoto game. Their emissions were going nowhere but up. The 22nd climate conference was held in
01:31:32.540 Mexico, November 2016, a year after Canadians elected the Trudeau government. In keeping with
01:31:39.480 the new prime minister's zealous embrace of the cause, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna led
01:31:44.440 a delegation of 225, one of the largest among the 100 countries assembled, that cost taxpayers a lot
01:31:52.720 in emissions spewing flights. Imagine our delegation's shock when just 24 hours after
01:31:59.140 the conference opened, they heard the soon-to-be 45th U.S. President Donald Trump declare that
01:32:04.120 man-made global warming was a big hoax promulgated by China and other countries wanting to steal
01:32:10.100 American jobs. With all the major players sidelined, who was left to save the planet
01:32:15.140 from climate Armageddon? Just the EU, Japan, and Australia with a combined emission share of 15%
01:32:21.620 and Canada adding our minuscule 1.6 percent. But futility didn't deter the Trudeau government
01:32:29.340 from saddling Canadians with carbon taxes and taxpayer-funded wind and solar power subsidies
01:32:34.840 in pursuit of its net zero holy grail. Now we have a prime minister who is trying to appear
01:32:42.060 less committed to the net zero mission, but the transformation of the UN Secretary General's
01:32:47.360 special envoy on climate action and finance, has been less than biblical. True, one of his first
01:32:54.220 actions on taking power was to remove the despised consumer carbon tax, but that was largely sleight
01:33:00.480 of hand, moving the tax out of public view onto beleaguered businesses already struggling with
01:33:05.500 Trump tariffs. Meanwhile, the foundations of the net zero emissions religion are crumbling rapidly.
01:33:12.300 In 2021, Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote a pro-carbon tax book entitled How to Avoid a Climate Change Disaster.
01:33:19.960 But four years later, in a letter published on the eve of the most recent UN COP conference, he advised too many resources are focused on emissions and the environment.
01:33:29.280 More money should go toward improving lives and curbing disease and poverty.
01:33:32.540 And he called out the doomsday view of climate change, urging world leaders to make a strategic pivot and focus on issues that have the greatest impact on human welfare.
01:33:43.240 Now, we know who Bill Gates is, but he did remove his endorsement for this climate nonsense.
01:33:48.440 net zero fatigued canadian should be asking their prime minister why are you weakening our already
01:33:54.640 struggling economy with carbon taxes and wasting taxpayer money subsidizing wind farms when it will
01:34:00.840 make no perceptible difference to the global climate he owes them an answer again that from
01:34:06.460 gwen morgan to the financial post so here we are paying these exorbitant taxes and even though we
01:34:15.760 can't see it at the pumps because you don't see these hidden taxes, right? You just think, oh my
01:34:20.480 God, gas has gone up again. We see the exorbitant prices of groceries. I talked about this last
01:34:25.940 night. This is all based upon transportation costs and energy costs, which are continuing
01:34:33.000 to go up with Carney's climate tax regime on the largest emitters. That's why we're paying so much
01:34:42.440 for food. That's why
01:34:44.720 we're paying so much for gas.
01:34:49.620 And it needs to stop.
01:34:52.420 And so if you're that
01:34:53.740 Carney supporter and all of these
01:34:55.280 four things that I've just mentioned now,
01:34:57.900 could you still support them?
01:35:01.660 Sadly, I think that answer is yes.
01:35:03.700 And one of the reasons for that
01:35:05.520 is because we're still better than
01:35:07.240 Pollyup.
01:35:10.940 I don't know how.
01:35:13.020 Pierre Paliap was on the Joe Rogan Experience.
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