00:08:54.320This week has been really strange, you guys, for Ghosts in the Machine.
00:08:58.020But I guess this is just something we have to deal with on live television.
00:09:02.660While we're waiting for Jeff to come back, he asked me to go ahead and play this video.
00:09:08.520He thought it was very timely, considering the situation that Alberta is in right now.
00:09:13.840Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, was in Greenland.
00:09:19.620the last couple of days talking about how poorly denmark has treated them and here's a little bit
00:09:25.540of the speech he gave yesterday and mark a lot of attacks at the trump administration at the
00:09:31.540president at me at others in our administration for saying the obvious which is that denmark
00:09:37.300hasn't done a good job at keeping greenland safe and you know one of the things i heard was well
00:09:42.820what about the many danes who lost their lives in the war on terror fighting alongside the united
00:09:47.700States. Well, look, we obviously honor the sacrifice of our Danish friends in the war on terror
00:09:53.30020 years ago, just as, for example, the French honor the sacrifice of Americans in Normandy
00:10:00.04080 years ago. But recognizing that there are important security partnerships in the past
00:10:05.820does not mean that we can't have disagreements with allies in the present about how to preserve
00:10:11.700our shared security for the future and that's what this is about there is no amount of bullying no
00:10:18.340amount of obfuscating no amount of confusing the issue our message to denmark is very simple you
00:10:24.580have not done a good job by the people of greenland you have under invested in the people of greenland
00:10:30.420and you have under invested in the security architecture of this incredible beautiful land
00:10:35.780mass filled with incredible people that has to change and because it hasn't changed this is why
00:10:41.540president trump's policy in greenland is what it is it's consistent with the first trump
00:10:46.160administration where you saw significant investments in arctic security and it will
00:10:50.520continue over the next four years under president trump's leadership
00:10:53.460okay so that was jd vance talking about what a terrible job greenland uh sorry denmark has done
00:11:02.860taking care of greenland and jeff hello oh hey how are you how's it going sorry it's been a long
00:11:12.960it's been a long week hey and i want to send a special shout out to our viewers in black diamond
00:11:19.080so yeah that's uh yeah those are my neighbors and i want to also express my thanks to the good folks
00:11:25.520in the black diamond emergency room who've been patching up myself and my friends and family for
00:11:29.840over 30 years best little emergency room in alberta i'll tell you that you told me a pretty
00:11:35.320interesting story the other day about how you're you identify as a cyborg which i thought was kind
00:11:40.500of amusing i think anybody that's been cowboying long enough ends up with a lot of metal in their
00:11:46.660body sooner or later it's just the way it seems to go it doesn't stop any of us don't let don't
00:11:52.920let fear and common sense stop you you know of course not so we played we just played the jd
00:11:58.080vance video from greenland where he was talking about how poorly they've been treated by denmark
00:12:04.220which i guess is their monarchy or their main i don't even know how to describe it really i mean
00:12:13.560how can such a little country like denmark controls such a big land mass like greenland
00:12:18.260how far back does that go and why would i think eric i think it goes back to eric the red actually
00:12:25.440yeah think about it like the dark ages viking times man like that's crazy but what was the
00:12:31.300relevance absolutely yeah what was the relevance between uh that particular address that vans gave
00:12:36.660today and the situation in alberta currently well that's what i wanted to talk about because i think
00:12:42.200that if you take the word denmark and replace it with the word canada and if you replace the term
00:12:47.320greenland and replace it with the word alberta that's exactly where we are and i think you know
00:12:52.480what the feedback that we're getting from the people that we're engaged with
00:12:56.160in the United States in terms of our Alberta prosperity project and others
00:13:01.540delegation to Washington project, right.
00:13:03.940Which I'll explain in a bit more detail later. You know,
00:13:08.260the feedback that we're getting from the members of the U S administration
00:13:12.520that we're talking to is the same rationale for self-determination of
00:13:16.500Greenland applies to self-determination for Alberta outside of Canada.
00:13:20.820I mean, obviously, you know, the you know, the liberal government in Ottawa, which has been largely either a controlled by the communist Chinese or be communist Chinese adjacent or C, just for whatever magical reason, has done nothing but promote policies that are friendly to Chinese global hegemony.0.84
00:13:41.060Right. Yeah. Including the destruction of the Alberta oil and gas industry and the deterioration of North American energy supply.0.82
00:13:48.840right are all very pro-chinese chinese friendly policies the same rationale applies from a u.s
00:13:55.840national security perspective for encouraging and supporting alberta independence to get the alberta
00:14:03.460oil resource which is the third largest oil resource in the entire world with a natural gas
00:14:10.480resource that has just been recalibrated at in excess of 130 trillion tons and then people that
00:14:17.520also understand the extent to which the 400 trillion i'm not times but um mcf so a million
00:14:24.740cubic feet that understand the extent to which the montany gas field of 400 trillion cubic feet
00:14:32.340which extends into alberta also probably needs to be recalibrated into the alberta reserves right
00:14:39.240alberta probably has the second or third largest natural gas resource in the entire world right so
00:14:47.460let's look at some of the things that trudeau did to destroy undermine we can north american
00:14:54.320energy security and energy supply like first of all we know that the biden's were bought and paid0.69
00:14:58.700for by the communist chinese i don't think there's any question about the fact that you know hunter0.68
00:15:03.920biden and joe biden and biden inc were completely bought and paid for you know by the communist0.68
00:15:08.540chinese so what did biden do he completely he blew down the entire u.s strategic reserve0.82
00:15:14.300in you know in a foolish attempt to bring down gasoline prices that he himself you know drove up0.99
00:15:22.120through his stupid policy so he destroyed the u.s strategic reserve and at the same time trudeau0.99
00:15:28.340on the i believe on behalf of the of the oh and you know the keystone pipeline project and i1.00
00:15:33.720believe that trudeau on behalf of the communist chinese um basically um was fully complicit with
00:15:40.380biden in terms of the destruction of the keystone project was not supportive of trans canada
00:15:45.440pipelines was not you know east to west pipelines was not supportive of pipelines through british
00:15:50.500columbia and then on top of it you know brought in the tanker bands to prevent oil from being
00:15:55.580moved down the west coast of canada a lot of people don't also understand that trudeau through
00:16:00.520ordering council brought in regulations to literally decimate the rolling stock of tanker
00:16:07.720cars to move oil from alberta to texas by rail by changing the tanker spec so that basically the
00:16:14.580majority of the rolling stock of oil transport um cars can no longer be used internationally
00:16:20.100to ship oil from alberta to texas brought in all of these oh and then on top of it brought in
00:16:25.420emission caps um you know we're threatening production caps you know on alberto oil and gas
00:16:30.600all of these policies that were from my perspective being deliberately brought in
00:16:36.060to weaken u.s energy supply um drive up inflation in north america you know all of which you know0.83
00:16:43.200harmful to u.s harmful to u.s national security and obviously in favor of you know chinese uh0.81
00:16:49.900global hegemony right so that's you know so on all of that basis you know u.s support for an0.94
00:16:56.800independent alberta where you know an independent even if you know we're not talking full statehood
00:17:02.180but just talking an independent nation state called the Commonwealth of
00:19:25.800I mean, you know, Trudeau's flooded Alberta, not just Calgary,0.98
00:19:29.100but flooded Alberta with all of the immigrants that Quebec didn't want.0.88
00:19:34.040So, you know, we now have, you know, one of the highest,0.95
00:19:36.420Calgary has one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada now.
00:19:39.540Our HIV rate is soaring because people are speculating
00:19:43.920that Trudeau didn't even bother to HIV screen all of the, you know,
00:19:47.380all of the people that they were sending to Alberta.
00:19:49.360our hiv rates are up about 70 largely amongst the immigrant community that the trudeau's flooded
00:19:55.040into uh flooded into alberta um uh our homelessness rates are through the ceiling i mean how much of
00:20:01.360that is you know trudeau's permissive um you know pro-drug um you know pro you know pro-cannabis
00:20:07.360pro uh you know legalization policies and lack of enforcement of um you know drug laws you know as
00:20:15.260as against criminal fentanyl gangs and all the rest of that stuff right all the problems that
00:20:19.260we're having in that regard uh it's completely shocking you know what calgary's turned into i
00:20:24.440mean my wife doesn't feel safe going downtown anymore you know it's it's that bad and i mean
00:20:29.640you know my wife and i were driving downtown you know not two or three months ago and i think we
00:20:34.160were uh it was uh center street so it's just at the base of the calgary towers we're driving
00:20:39.380you know towards the river and there's literally homeless people lined up all the way around the
00:20:44.600block and up the steven avenue mall to get uh you know to get uh uh food you know free lunch from
00:20:50.880some sort of christian ministry that was providing food to the homeless on uh on calgary streets i
00:20:56.980mean it's it's shocking what jody got you know all these liberals like uh the heat benchy who's
00:21:02.500now the leader of the communist party of alberta otherwise known as the ndp have done to alberta
00:21:07.540you know jody gondek the leader of the communist faction you know mayor of you know on city council
00:21:13.200who's the mayor who's now the mayor of talgary you know what these people have done to our city
00:21:17.860let alone let's you know let's address you know other reasons for you know alberta independence
00:21:23.460you know a big one being control of our own immigration right and for most albertans that
00:21:29.120have lived here trudeau didn't consult any of us as to whether or not we wanted the population of
00:21:34.120alberta to increase to five million people apparently one of the you know one of the
00:21:38.540lovely people in and around um uh mark carney right um you know mark that you know mark the
00:21:44.500carnival hawkster carney um has plans to increase the population of toronto to 20 million the
00:21:50.500population of montreal to 14 million the population of vancouver to 19 million and the population of
00:21:56.080calgary to seven or eight million yeah this is the century initiative guy that he hired
00:22:00.860you know last winter is an example i think you and i were talking about it today
00:22:06.260um you know we had winnipeg like temperatures in calgary where you know it was minus 50 degrees
00:22:13.420celsius and it was actually colder in calgary and colder out on my ranch than it was in places
00:22:18.020on the surface of mars i know if you're a winnipegger that's not news because you get
00:22:21.520that important jemaine all the time but for those of us that live in the chinook belt minus 50 is a
00:22:25.920hell of a shock to our system so it gets to minus 50 in alberta and we're literally being told by
00:22:32.060provincial premier to start shutting off electric heaters and shutting down electrical appliances
00:22:37.060that draw a lot of power because we were literally on the verge of crashing our entire power grid
00:22:42.960and people freezing to death in minus 50 degree weather because our power grid could not handle1.00
00:22:48.680all the immigrants that trudeau sent to alberta calgary is still on a water shortage and water0.99
00:22:54.480advisory because our water system can't handle all the immigrants that have flooded into calgary1.00
00:22:59.140um it's just a mess and of course all the idiots that are in charge of this are all of the world1.00
00:23:04.940economic forum 15 minute city planning types you know that have literally you know destroyed our1.00
00:23:11.100cities you know it's uh you know and again this is one of the reasons that uh so many people in
00:23:16.900alberta support independence and want to get the hell out of canada is because we need to restore
00:23:21.960some sort of common sense policies um you know to the commonwealth of alberta and get a grip on all
00:23:28.800of this you know nobody's saying oh we're going to send all these people home but we're saying1.00
00:23:31.800time out we don't want any more immigration into alberta until we can accommodate all the people0.99
00:23:37.540we have i mean we have people um you know who's you know who have you know 18 19 20 30 you know0.98
00:23:43.16020 30 year old kids that can't leave home because they can't afford an apartment you know rents or
00:23:48.460you know one bedroom apartment you know 2200 2300 2400 a month and the problem is that young1.00
00:23:54.700albertans that have grown up in alberta can't afford an apartment because all of these immigrants0.99
00:23:59.980that trudeau's flooded into alberta get government subsidies you know refugee rebates whatever money1.00
00:24:05.620they give to them they can all live you know five and ten people to a two-bedroom apartment where0.80
00:24:10.540they all you know shell out a you know a couple three four hundred bucks a month there you know
00:24:14.260to live and you know uh you know albertans can't compete and they can't afford to live
00:24:20.000I mean, the degree of despair in this province right now amongst young people is through the roof because they just don't see a future anymore.
00:24:29.280And that's why people are supporting independence.
00:24:31.720You know, that's interesting because Alberta is looked to as a beacon for all the freedom people.
00:24:36.300And, you know, the ones I've connected to over the past five years or so, it's like I got it.
00:24:40.560If I'm going to stay in Canada, I got to get to Alberta.
00:24:42.580And to hear your depiction of it in the last couple of minutes, it sounds like hope is lost unless we can get this done.
00:24:51.480Where is Danielle Smith in all of this?
00:24:54.240And the reason I ask that is because I pointed out earlier this week that in a couple of speeches in the last couple of months,
00:25:00.340she has explicitly mentioned and used the phrase national unity crisis based upon all of the conflicts she's been having with the liberals and whoever,
00:25:10.540and doug ford all of those people on so-called team canada does she is she aware of this movement
00:25:18.060and what do you feel as though she might make of it going forward well she i mean she's well aware
00:25:25.340of the fact that i would say probably over 65 percent of the members of the united conservative
00:25:31.100party of alberta now are also members of the alberta prosperity project and during the last
00:25:36.300leadership uh election uh or selection process for the leader of uh the ucp after we all banded0.97
00:25:44.280together to throw jason kenny out on his useless liberal ass um uh during that leadership during0.96
00:25:50.500that that leadership uh convention um or you know contest app hosted a debate and daniel smith was0.98
00:25:58.020there and she was saying you know talking about those same things that you know canada is gonna
00:26:02.140have to wake up and canada's going to have to um uh give alberta what it's been demanding for
00:26:07.900decades which is you know keep your hands off of our natural resources stop trying to destroy our
00:26:13.380oil and gas industry let people in business in alberta run the business of alberta because we
00:26:18.580know what we're doing and people in ontario don't even know where their oil comes from
00:26:23.380let alone you know let alone how it gets there i mean most people in ontario don't understand that
00:26:27.500all of their alberta oil comes up through the states so when doug ford is we're gonna cut off
00:26:32.220right he doesn't understand that he would be doing what everybody says law he has been threatening0.96
00:26:39.180to do which is to let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark but it was doug ford that was0.87
00:26:43.220advocating it by wanting to cut off alberta oil without realizing his alberta oil comes up through0.97
00:26:48.340edbridge line nine from michigan and through illinois right so you know albertans are just1.00
00:26:54.120tired of being governed by idiots that don't even know where their oil comes from they don't1.00
00:26:57.780understand our energy industry they don't understand uh in north american security1.00
00:27:02.340supply they don't understand how integrated the industry is and you know they want to but they
00:27:07.980want to govern our industry they want to arbitrarily impose production caps they want
00:27:11.940to arbitrarily impose emission caps as if anything we did in canada to control co2 emissions like0.93
00:27:19.740Even if we went to net zero in Canada tomorrow, it wouldn't change global CO2 or lower global CO2 because every year China and India increase their CO2 output by 10% each, which means whatever savings we make in Canada, whatever pain we inflict on the working people of Canada means nothing because apparently all of the idiots in Ottawa don't understand that we don't have a big dole over Canada.
00:27:46.260that means that when we reduce our CO2,
00:27:48.760the CO2 is reduced in our little part of the world, right?0.65
00:34:53.960And the great thing is that APP memberships
00:34:56.360are moving up almost directly in a direct linear line with the increase of memberships in the
00:35:02.200united conservative party of alberta so you know we're you know we literally see ourselves at a
00:35:07.540point here you know in another year unless you know prior to the referendum coming up this year
00:35:12.660that um you know the members you said referendum coming up later this year now i know and this is
00:35:21.980something i wanted to bring up with you uh i know that you guys are trying to get this referendum
00:35:26.720scheduled around municipal elections uh later on in the fall am i correct no that's that's that's
00:35:31.700that's keith that's keith keith wilson keith and i disagree on that i don't see that there's any
00:35:35.480magic to having the referendum in conjunction with the uh you know with the um uh you know
00:35:42.180with the municipal elections keith keith is not you know keith i think i can't remember if he's
00:35:45.780a member of app or not but he's not really involved in the planning that we're doing he's
00:35:49.260always been kind of a lone wolf off doing keith wilson things off on his own right um uh you know
00:35:56.220there may be reasons not to schedule a referendum with the municipal elections and have a standalone
00:36:01.620uh referendum uh you know one of the big reasons of course is that the lefties are all really good
00:36:06.780at getting you know getting out the union vote for municipal elections and voting for you know
00:36:11.140lefty um you know municipal issues i don't want you know this issue being confused with those issues
00:36:16.660right um you know so i mean that's just a discussion that's ongoing quite frankly what
00:36:22.200the goal that we've set for ourselves is to have a referendum prior to december 15th of this year
00:36:27.320it could be at the time of the municipal elections i mean i don't know what daniel smith is going to
00:36:31.920do yet because there's two there's two paths to a referendum in albert right one is something
00:36:36.760through the called the citizens initiative process right so app has committed its resources and its
00:36:43.120work in all of its the funding we're bringing in and gathering from our members to gathering
00:36:48.120enough signatures through the citizens initiative process to force a referendum this year through
00:36:53.360that process jeff do you know how many how many members the uh the app has i'm sorry to interrupt
00:36:58.360you the alberta prosperity project how many members just roughly ballpark
00:37:02.220roughly um right now six over 65 000 uh member supporters and volunteers in our database right
00:37:12.700And but the exciting thing about it is, as you know, all of this has started going viral, and the whole idea of Alberta independence has literally become, you know, dinner table talk across the province, right? Not just, you know, not just, you know, amongst my friends and my, you know, you know, and my cohorts, but right across the province.
00:37:31.640um our memberships are soaring like we're up to you know we're getting picking up two three
00:37:36.620four thousand new members a week is kind of the projections that we're seeing going forward last
00:37:40.380week it was twenty two hundred this week is going to be i think three and a half thousand next week
00:37:44.260we're projecting four thousand new members and the great thing is that all of these people for
00:37:48.480whatever reason couldn't have anything to do with me of course um are also buying memberships in the
00:37:52.960ucp right so as you know app membership is going up so is the ucp membership in lockstep right yeah
00:38:01.020Which, you know, one way or another, we either have a referendum through a citizen's initiative process, or alternatively, we have a special general meeting of the UCP this year, and we have a vote within the UCP as to whether or not we should be having a referendum.
00:38:14.120So, I mean, there's more than one way. My point is, there's more than one way to skin a cat. And the other, you know, I don't even know if we're allowed to say that anymore. Sorry, I apologize to Peter for that.
00:38:24.100But, but anyway, the other thing that's interesting is that I think that our premier is reading the writing on the wall, like this little, you know, three or four weeks ago, you know, she said, Oh, I don't see much appetite in Alberta for independence when somebody asked her the question right after that initial tweet went viral.
00:38:41.060right then you know last week she issued her list of demands to the canadian government you know
00:38:47.100saying that unless you give me all of these things including no more transfer payments to wealthy
00:38:51.400large provinces that can fully manage their own affairs without our money right this will create
00:38:56.720a national unity crisis right which translates into either she'll be calling a referendum or
00:39:02.160she understands that app is going to be working its ass off you know for the next four or five
00:39:06.320months to get together the signatures or take the steps we need to take or the people or people
00:39:11.040will spontaneously take the steps that they need to take through the ucp to bring about um a
00:39:16.800referendum but it's gonna happen i mean i'm so you know i'm that i'm that confident about it
00:39:21.760you talked about um membership increasing exponentially has this been going on just
00:39:27.520recently since trudeau stepped down since carney and the liberals have been doing so well in the
00:39:32.240polls or is this just something that's been happening naturally no i no i think it's my
00:39:38.240fellow Albertans have come to the same realization that I've that I came to right you know I'm a
00:39:43.640you know I'm a student of history I'm a student of political philosophy I mean I have you know
00:39:47.440like I said I have an honors degree in poli sci and one of the things that I recognize you know
00:39:51.440and a lot of us recognize is one of the big stumbling points to Alberta independence was
00:39:56.540the question of what we would we be recognized as an independent country by the United States of
00:40:01.240America and you know because they're our largest market they're obviously you know we have way
00:40:06.160more north south crate you know between alberta and the united states and we have you know east
00:40:10.100west trade right they're our most important trading partner and without u.s support you know
00:40:15.780obviously any alberta independence project would be doomed to fail right and of course one of the
00:40:21.140big problems and you know you're you know you and i are of a similar age so you would remember all
00:40:25.440the fuss that was created when charles de gaulle stood on the balcony and i think it was you know
00:40:29.180montreal or quebec city and said vive le quebec live right and how upset and incensed that pierre
00:40:34.280Trudeau would be that you know that Charles de Gaulle would you know interfere and intermeddle
00:40:38.380you know our NATO ally would you know meddle in the internal affairs of Canada well along comes
00:40:44.200President Trump and it's quite clear that President Trump doesn't play the game by the same rules
00:40:49.380and that you know he's not I don't think the Trump administration is as concerned witness Denmark and
00:40:55.820Norway and Denmark and Greenland in you know interfering intermeddling in the internal affairs
00:41:02.920of other nato allies so i don't think and certainly the feedback that we're getting from
00:41:07.860the united states i mean the support for alberta statehood uh as in you know becoming a member of
00:41:12.740the united states is overwhelming in the united states every american could see the benefits of
00:41:17.440it they all would welcome us with open arms right why wouldn't they you know we'd be a massive you
00:41:23.020know like you know like you know we would come you know if alberta were to join the united states
00:41:27.620which is on the table um you know we would be a huge you know wealthy addition to the wealth of
00:41:35.160the united states and the uh you know and the security of the united states and the national
00:41:39.640security of the united states why wouldn't they want alberta to join the united states the bigger
00:41:44.900question and i think you know we have we have to deal with just let me finish the point we have to
00:41:48.880deal with things incrementally the first step is to vote alberta out of canada right form a new
00:41:54.380alberta constitution right and a lot of us you know myself included feel that you know the the
00:41:59.720constitution of the state of texas with some modifications to include massively enhanced
00:42:05.360protections for you know indigenous rights uh you know accommodating you know alberta's indigenous
00:42:10.260population with much stronger constitutional protections than they currently enjoy from
00:42:15.060canada you know a constitutionalized resource revenue sharing deal that they don't currently
00:42:19.820have with you know uh currently have that they would never have other than with the with an
00:42:24.600independent alberta with the 75 or 80 billion dollars a year coming back into the province
00:42:30.360that we've now been pissing away on quebec ontario the maritimes and the rest of canada
00:42:34.300um you know etc um you know the future for an independent alberta is the brightest future
00:42:41.660imaginable and that's what we're all working towards so what's the support level i mean i
00:42:48.420saw a poll a couple of weeks ago it was 37 percent in favor of alberta independence and there was a
00:42:53.580whole bunch of wishy-washy responses as well i'm going to say 20 percent were undecided or didn't
00:42:58.380know and then there was another 35 or maybe 40 percent who said no we're staying in canada do
00:43:03.560you think that you can pull this off and get those numbers past 50 sure let me ask you this question
00:43:09.460if you were in manitoban and you were told hey if you vote for independence for manitoba you
00:43:15.240We won't have to pay any more federal income tax.
00:43:17.500Your fuel prices are going to be cut in half.
00:43:20.520You're not going to pay any more capital gains tax.
00:43:22.840You're not going to pay any excise tax.
00:46:42.180I think that's, I think, I call the Clarity Act, you know,
00:46:48.660the Jean Chrétien Wishful Thinking Act, right?
00:46:51.860Because I think the reality of it is...
00:46:55.960no no no you got to come back here your your device was disconnected all right
00:47:01.420so there he is hang on just a sec just a sec Jeff you just you you disconnected
00:47:06.020for 30 seconds there so you were talking about no no you're good it's
00:47:11.900just that you were in the middle of the Jean Chrétien wishful thinking act and
00:47:15.480you kept going there so we lost about 20 seconds of what you were saying I want
00:47:19.200you to go back in time if you can he's gone again well we'll just wait and get
00:47:25.580back this is a very fascinating conversation and it would be a shame if if it ended now
00:47:31.220okay there we go sorry so anyway no let me let me get back to that right so let's start off like
00:47:37.620the clarity act was jean crazier's way of trying to cheat his way out of the secession reference
00:47:43.580because the secession reference actually made it a hell of a lot easier right or you know didn't
00:47:48.440have those stipulations in it the secession reference basically said that um you know if
00:47:54.080If a province were to have a clear question, his Wi-Fi, that's what it is, would then have to be followed by a period of negotiation with Canada.
00:48:10.420So the Parliament of Canada under Jean Chrétier then passed this clarity to try to clarify what the Supreme Court of Canada meant in the secession reference, right?
00:48:21.160And put these additional super-added stipulations onto what would be required, including effectively trying to give the House of Commons a veto over whether or not a province could leave Canada, right?
00:48:35.280And, of course, one of the interesting things that everybody forgets about the secession reference, right, is that the Supreme Court of Canada in the...
00:51:16.980oh yeah no we're right in the middle of a very important point i was talking about the
00:51:23.680secession reference yes and the one thing that nobody wants to talk about is that the supreme
00:51:29.200court of canada um expressly stated in the secession reference that they were not going to
00:51:34.640rule on the issue of a unilateral declaration of independence right so um you know but you know my
00:51:43.680you know the broader question is for canada and the world is if alberta has a referendum right
00:51:50.980and if a clear majority of albertans vote to leave canada on a clear question right and the day
00:51:57.680following that alberta declares its independence from canada and the independence of alberta from
00:52:04.360canada is recognized by the united states what's canada going to do about it you know like as
00:52:11.580president trump said last week you know mark carney's got to understand he doesn't have any
00:52:15.660cards right like it's pretty you know it's pretty cut and dried at that point so the
00:52:21.360comments can jump up and down all they want and go ahead you you said that you drafted
00:52:26.360a clear question do you have it off the top of your head um i think i can find it in my i think
00:52:34.180i could probably find it in my phone let me give me if you just give me one second i think i think
00:52:38.180i know where it is i mean this is something that needs to be clear concise so that people get
00:52:44.020exactly what they're voting for right and exactly now that was okay i've got it okay go ahead
00:52:51.300i've got it right here so this is i'll read you the whole statute that i've drafted it is that
00:52:56.780i've actually forwarded to various friends of mine who happen to be members of the legislative
00:53:00.000assembly of alberta some of whom may actually have the guts to table as a private members
00:53:04.440okay so so anyway so it's the title is the alberta independence referendum act preamble
00:53:12.180Whereas excessive Canadian federal governments have exceeded their constitutional jurisdiction with overreach through property seizures, excessive taxation, and natural resource regulation aimed at the destruction of Alberta's autonomy and sovereignty, whereas the government of Alberta has been mandated by referendum to bring an end to the payment of equalization dollars to provinces of Canada who continually mismanage their public finances, the Alberta legislature hereby enacts the Alberta Independence Referendum Act.
00:53:40.000Section 1. Within six months of any Canadian federal election, the government of Alberta shall call a provincial referendum on the independence of Alberta from Canada.
00:53:49.320Two, the referendum question shall take the following form, quote, further to the overtaxation and unconstitutional overreach of successive governments of Canada aimed at harming the sovereign citizens of Alberta for the political benefit of successive governments of Canada, the citizens of Alberta vote to remove Alberta from the Canadian Federation and form an independent Commonwealth of Alberta.
00:54:12.100Four, in furtherance of this legislation, pursuant to the Constitution of Canada, all federal provincial taxes in Alberta shall be collected by the government of Alberta.
00:54:21.680Four, only such proportion of such taxes deemed by the government of Alberta to be for the common benefit of citizens of Alberta shall be remitted to the government of Canada.
00:54:31.460You know, clear question, plus, you know, the, you know, something that Albertans have been screaming for for decades, which is that, henceforth, Alberta will collect all federal and provincial taxes in Alberta and will only remit to Canada, you know, such portion of those taxes that are deemed by the Alberta government to be reasonable.
00:54:53.360If this happens and you're able to get this referendum scheduled and it happens before December the 15th and the vote comes in, 51-52% in favor of independence, what happens after that?
00:55:08.980Well, then there's going to be a declaration of independence of the Commonwealth of Alberta.
00:55:12.780and i you know and part of part of the mission of the delegation to washington is you know
00:55:18.960obviously our fellow citizens have a lot of questions that you know they want to answer
00:55:22.980that a lot of them want to want to have answered and have to have answered in order to vote in
00:55:27.320favor of independence right as an example what sort of fiscal and financial support you know
00:55:32.340would the u.s government or the u.s treasury give to the independent commonwealth of alberta
00:55:37.340you know as we transition away from the canadian dollar to the alberta dollar which would not be
00:55:43.700fiat currency but the value of it would be based on the natural resource wealth of alberta which
00:55:49.000is in the trillions of dollars right um would the u.s government be willing to float you know
00:55:54.560a trillion dollar line of credit to get us over the hump on the understanding that we probably
00:55:59.060would you know wouldn't need a fraction of that right to get to where we need to go um with the
00:56:03.640U.S. government you know we're Albertans to move towards statehood be willing to you know to convert
00:56:09.180all Alberta you know savings pensions etc into U.S. dollars at par you know would you know what
00:56:15.660form of military alliance would the government of the United States like to see with the government
00:56:20.840of Alberta I mean we see or the you know the Commonwealth of Alberta I mean we see it as
00:56:24.960being pretty simple you know once we're no longer sending 80 billion dollars a year to the rest of
00:56:30.580canada and alberta says look on the basis of the trillion and a half dollars that you owe us for
00:56:35.240all of our previous equalization grabs that went to the rest of canada henceforth all canadian
00:56:40.220military bases and military equipment in the province of alberta are now the property of the
00:56:44.580commonwealth of alberta and the commonwealth of alberta shall uh you know or will agree to spend
00:56:51.180three and a half four percent of its gdp per you know per annum um on military expenditures and the
00:56:57.860great thing for alberta we don't have you know we don't have an ocean so we're not going to need a
00:57:01.060navy we're not going to need marines all we're going to need is you know is a you know is a
00:57:05.020capable army and um uh and air force which you know from an alberta perspective could easily
00:57:11.040include 13 or 14 super water tanker bombers to fight forest fires all over the western you know
00:57:17.480western north america right but we'd have our own air force and our own army and uh have that air
00:57:23.740force and army fully integrated into the command structure of the u.s military i mean why wouldn't
00:57:29.000we right i mean we have a strong not only a military alliance with the united states but
00:57:33.100we could integrate our armed forces into the into the u.s chain of command you know so there's all
00:57:37.900kinds of things that we can do on a going forward basis and what we want to do from a fact-finding
00:57:42.840basis is to have you know very high level discussions with the trump administration
00:57:47.940in terms of what the u.s government would be prepared to you know the u.s administration
00:57:52.900would be prepared to support on a going forward basis in support of alberta's self-determination
00:57:59.460and and you know you know the ongoing chinese interference in alberta oil production energy
00:58:06.080production and north american security of energy supply right and you know so we think there's a
00:58:11.000very strong case for it and getting back to our original discussion you know if you take everything
00:58:15.260that jd vance said um you know about greenland and replace the word denmark with the word canada
00:58:20.940and replace the word Greenland with the word Alberta,
00:58:23.900we see that there's a very strong case going forward
00:58:26.540for Alberta independence and certainly for those Albertans.
00:58:29.800And there's quite a few of them within the independence movement
00:58:31.920that are interested in pursuing U.S. statehood.
00:58:36.180Again, let's first get Alberta into a position of independence.
00:58:40.560We'd use the Texas Constitution as a model, right?0.89
00:58:43.540Because that's the route that Texas took.
00:58:45.800It first became an independent republic rather than a commonwealth,
00:58:49.960but an independent republic with its own president with an eye towards you know future adhesion to
00:58:55.620the united states of america and part of the texas constitution includes the ability to vote
00:59:00.500themselves out of the united states of america should they wish to do so so you know i think
00:59:05.240for those people that are interested in pursuing full statehood um uh you know that uh you know
00:59:11.060that that's a model that could easily be followed and obviously even within our group you know
00:59:15.160there's there's a there's a group that have had the benefit or members of our group that have had
00:59:19.600the benefit of actually having direct discussions with sarah palin the former governor of alaska
00:59:24.400who said oh you gotta understand like you know alaska statehood wasn't really a close to done
00:59:29.540thing there are a lot of people in alaska they go like what do we want to join the united states
00:59:33.860for as a state as a territory we don't have to we don't have to pay federal income tax
00:59:38.920why who cares about voting for congressmen and voting having senators and voting for president
00:59:44.180we just don't want to pay any federal income tax so i mean you know apparently alaska becoming
00:59:49.520the state was a very you know was a was a very fraught uh you know was a very fraught discussion
00:59:54.440and it may well be that you know we have you know independent commonwealth of alberta we could have
00:59:59.500you know the independent commonwealth of alberta as a territory of the united states
01:00:03.620in the commonwealth of alberta you know as a as a state within the united states like the
01:00:08.900commonwealth of massachusetts or the commonwealth of virginia um all of these options are open but
01:00:13.960the great thing about it is finally Albertans will have a choice adult Albertans for the first
01:00:19.560time ever in their lives are going to have the ability to express clearly in a democratic fashion
01:00:24.980whether they want to continue to take it in the teeth from Ottawa you know on an ongoing basis
01:00:30.320and have people that despise our culture hate our oil hate the fact that we're industrious
01:00:35.720hard-working people that resent you know resent the fact that the government of Canada is
01:00:41.100constantly trying to undermine the work ethic of our children with enhanced ui benefits um uh0.58
01:00:47.540universal um you know universal basic income legalized marijuana you know and all this crap
01:00:53.760that's hurt our kids so badly in this province um you know we're gonna have the opportunity to say
01:00:59.260no we don't want to be part of that anymore all we all we care about as albertans and within the
01:01:04.160culture of alberta is being able to work hard take care of our kids keep the taxes as low as possible
01:01:09.800so we can afford to spend our money on our families the way that we want to spend our money on our families.
01:01:15.540And by the way, we want the government to stay the hell out of our lives
01:01:19.140and not tell us how many friends we're allowed to have, when we can leave our house,0.97
01:01:22.920you know, that we can't get on airplanes without being vaccinated, you know, and all this other bullshit.0.68
01:01:27.640And I'll use the word, right, because that's a very Albertan technical term, you know,0.93
01:01:31.620that we've been living with, you know, under the Chinese communist regime
01:01:36.020that's been governing Ottawa for the last 10 years.
01:01:38.120You are going to have some significant pushback from the Marxists, the Nahid Nenshis and the Jodi Gondeks, as you referenced earlier in our discussion.
01:01:48.840And as you say, they're quite capable of mounting a campaign because they've got all the unions.
01:01:54.520They've got all of those contacts and they can mobilize them very, very quickly.
01:02:23.960You know, and that's specifically, you know, union members that didn't want to get vaccinated were told, oh, we're not going to pursue your grievance.0.94