00:42:28.080two weeks ago okay two weeks ago and then Danielle Smith said well I'd like to I'd like
00:42:35.160to see how many people here are in favor of maybe in Canada and only five percent of the room stood
00:42:40.100up so she was visibly shocked at that which is what I'd like to know how many people here
00:42:45.500you know are upset that we're having a vote at all nobody stood up right so and then I heard
00:42:51.000you know and again it was from the same person who was at both meetings there was a meeting
00:42:54.300In another meeting in Lacombe, and a gentleman stood up at that meeting and told Danielle, he said, you know, Premier Smith, I supported you for the leadership.
00:43:02.120I supported you and I worked as a volunteer in the last election to get you elected as Premier, right?
00:43:07.860And he said, now I see that you're taking four million Alberta tax dollars that I contribute to as a taxpayer, right, to take out ads and advertise against the best interest for my family and my family's future.
00:43:22.540you know campaigning against alberta independence that my entire family supports um you know as
00:43:29.240being the only way forward and the only way to a prosperous future in alberta i will never support
00:43:34.040you ever again and the whole room stood up and gave him a standing ovation it was the most applause
00:43:38.720that anybody got all night right wow and that's the that's the that's the mood out there in alberta
00:43:43.960right now people are really really unhappy with danielle for bailing in on the side of you know
00:43:48.820we call them the forever communists, right? Again, it's such strange bedfellows, right?
00:43:53.700Danielle holding hands with Rachel Notley, Nahid the Nose Picker Nenshi, you know, Mark Carney,
00:44:00.800right? And then you got Harper, Manning, Kenny, you know, all these retreaded politicians,
00:44:06.360they're all grifting and grafting because they're, you know, they're all getting paid one way or
00:44:11.540another through this, right? And I find it so funny that, you know, everybody online attacks me,
00:44:15.960oh, you're just a gripper, you're getting rich on the campaign for independence.
00:57:34.860But, of course, he's just such a, you know, a little egotist.
00:57:38.560He can't stand not being at the big kid's table.
00:57:41.260So he's going to get on his private jet and fly down there, you know,1.00
00:57:44.400like when, you know, he had no business being there because he's an idiot, right?1.00
00:57:48.380Instead of simply saying, President Trump, you know,1.00
00:57:50.840we've been hiding under the American military umbrella forever.
00:57:55.000that's got to stop we understand that you know the fact that we're spending less than one percent of
00:57:59.860our gdp is a complete violation of our nato agreement we've been doing it for over you know
00:58:04.920for a decade and a half that has to stop right we understand your concerns about the trade imbalance
00:58:10.700you're right we're wrong right but you know our officials and your officials agree on the number
00:58:16.260it's not a it's not 200 billion it's 67 billion i think at the time and we're going to fix that
00:58:21.420we're going to solve all the problems at once we're going to immediately announce it mou with
00:58:25.460you we're going to buy 67 billion dollars worth of um you know helicopters drones armored personnel
00:58:31.760carriers equipment to police the border you know we'll happily buy hellfire missiles and pass the
00:58:37.360notwithstanding clause so we can use them on meth labs right whatever it is you know give trump
00:58:41.980whatever the hell he wanted and just say and we're canadians we're really good at saying we're we're0.80
00:58:47.060sorry we're sorry we've been such shitty neighbors we've been bad friends we've been lousy neighbors
00:58:52.980we're sorry what would have trump had to say to that other than thank you and we wouldn't be going
00:58:58.940through any of this nonsense that we're going through now with our economy and shout you know
00:59:03.580shatters you know in tatters um you know with our country being completely vulnerable uh you know1.00
00:59:09.960now to communist china to the european union you know all the rest of it because those two idiots0.99
00:59:15.860Carney and Trudeau right have thought it's been a good idea to spend the last two years or three0.99
00:59:20.860years insulting the crap out of the leader of our largest customer right yeah anybody who's in
00:59:27.200business you know it's like oh okay here's my great business strategy right my biggest customer
00:59:32.100says hey can we sit down and roll up our sleeves and and you know sharpen our pencils we do billions
00:59:37.760and billions of dollars worth of business together you know I think we can do better in terms of you
00:59:42.180know the equity of this relationship you know can we please sit down and you know and talk about this
00:59:46.700and work out some differences right instead of saying sure absolutely our biggest customers we'd
00:59:52.240be screwed without them right no no no instead of doing that we started insulting him we fly around
00:59:57.520the world we announced the new world order in communist china we say that you know we're now0.96
01:00:01.660in a strategic alliance with communist china and have entered into a top secret security agreement
01:00:08.020with communist china that nobody can know about because it's secret right all of these things
01:00:13.580have happened in the last year you don't think those have been massive irritants to the united0.83
01:00:18.340states of america and then look what happens to massive irritants look what happens to canada we
01:00:27.080lose 120 000 jobs in just two months this past august and september because of the tariffs that
01:00:33.320are now coming home to roost finally uh jeff there's a guy there's a guy go ahead sorry just
01:00:41.480shadow just let me finish this one point because i'll just this is my last round and then on top
01:00:45.380of it now he wants to join the freaking european union right and of course you know what is trump
01:00:51.140and trump's already said it but if you don't think trump's if you think trump's kidding about
01:00:54.720this you're wrong trump's already said okay you want to join the european union first of all we
01:00:58.840see that as a security threat the united states of america and second of all if you do that we
01:01:04.500don't have to have a trade deal with you we'll just go talk to your masters in brussels and
01:01:08.980whatever tariffs we've decided that we're going to oppose on europe we're going to oppose on canada0.83
01:01:13.020so screw you screw whatever you know preferred relationship you've ever had we're tearing up
01:01:18.060all of the deals and from now on we'll negotiate all of our trade deals for canada through brussels0.98
01:01:22.720right you know it's interesting that that the media does not want to talk about the fact that
01:01:28.400the USMCA KUSMA, as it's referred to in Canada, can be completely terminated within six months.
01:01:34.520You know, there's people say, well, it's got 15 years of sunset clause. All Trump has to do is
01:01:38.940say, you know what, we're giving you a written note of six months from now, the USMCA is toast.
01:01:43.240And that means that the 80 percent of trade that goes through tariff free from Canada to the United
01:01:48.320States right now would be subject to these 50 percent or possibly higher tariffs when Trump
01:01:55.360really wants to turn the screws so let me run this past you here there's a guy a geopoliticist
01:02:00.400uh also an author his name is peter zaihan and in 2019 he wrote a book called the accidental
01:02:07.100superpower which he dedicated a chapter to alberta in and he suggests okay that alberta joining the
01:02:15.920united states as the 51st state they would instantly become the most prosperous state
01:02:23.380in the union just based upon joining because of all of the natural resources daniel smith
01:02:30.620hang on a second daniel smith has been quoted as saying that you know if you want to set up a brand
01:02:38.060new country an independent alberta well you want to build all of the everything all of the
01:02:43.280infrastructure from scratch it's going to cost 350 maybe 400 billion dollars so now i i don't
01:02:52.480believe those numbers and i believe she's trying to use a fear tactic there and a lot of this stuff
01:02:56.960is already in place anyhow so what's your take on all that well well first of all um uh we have no
01:03:06.240interest in joining the united states of america like our our goal from day one is to become a free
01:03:10.560and independent country and we say the day that alberta declares itself independent from canada
01:03:15.160we become the wealthiest country in the world with the highest gdp per capita of any country
01:03:19.760in the world right with no military with no infrastructure with with you don't go ahead
01:03:26.460no i mean we there's a document called the value of freedom that we that was published last year
01:03:32.740by the alberta cross-party project where we go through all of that right we you know we posited
01:03:37.660an initial setup cost for an alberta military and keep in mind we don't need a coast guard we don't
01:03:42.160need a navy you know we basically need an air force that's going to have a fleet of you know
01:03:46.220a firefighter water bombers to fight forest fires uh you know some interceptors you know whatever
01:03:51.260and then a land force that would be fully integrated uh you know with the u.s military
01:03:56.360right because they're our largest ally right so you know it'd be a no-brainer you know so
01:04:00.700five billion a year uh you know five billion to get started and five billion a year um uh you know
01:04:06.320military costs which is a drop in the bucket of the additional new wealth that's going to be
01:04:11.220created through alberta independence and just getting rid of all of the money that we're sending
01:04:15.380to ottawa sending to quebec sending to the maritimes elsewhere right then all the other
01:04:19.380things right we don't need to replace parks canada we already have an alberta park service right
01:04:24.520so we just absorb all the you know federal people when we take over the you know take
01:04:28.560take our take the national parks back as alberta national parks right um you know we already have
01:04:34.220an alberta revenue service right that you know collects taxes so we don't need the cra we have
01:04:38.580you know we have our own tax collectors here right we can repurpose all of the useless bureaucrats
01:04:43.600It's like we have 16 or 17 managers for every doctor within Alberta Health in Alberta, right?
01:04:49.740So we've got all these extraneous bureaucrats and all these various Alberta departments that can fill these other federal roles.
01:04:55.860We just have to move them around, right?
01:04:57.700Custom and border service, you know, all of those things.
01:05:00.080We came up with, you know, basically a startup cost of less than, you know, of less than $10 billion to transition, not $400 billion, right?
01:05:10.020you know and and again those costs are in line with studies that were done by the london school
01:05:14.600of economics with regard to scotland uh with regard to quebec you know these numbers that
01:05:20.200danielle's coming up with are completely ludicrous but again our response is okay let's take this
01:05:25.200worst case scenario that danielle's let's get our cost 400 billion dollars okay well we're sitting
01:05:31.380on 15 to 25 trillion dollars worth of natural resources right i can do that math and make that
01:05:37.820business deal work all day long who cares it's a bargain at that price right what's the monetary
01:05:44.780system is a lie it's designed to frighten people i agree what don't forget that a big part of that
01:05:50.760number is there sorry just let me finish this thought a big part of that number is they're
01:05:55.560presuming that albertans are going to absorb a large portion of canada's national debt that we
01:06:01.780have no legal obligation to absorb exactly exactly what's the monetary system jeff what like is it a
01:06:09.220new alberta style dollar is it using the american dollar for a while until you get something up and
01:06:15.660running is there a plan for that yeah i think we did transition to the u.s dollar because let's
01:06:21.120face it you know canada's all often over the years been referred to as a petro currency
01:06:24.840the minute alberta leaves canada the canadian dollar is going to trade on par with the
01:06:28.900I mean, let's be real with that, right? So, you know, I think initially, you know, we want to, you know, we want to trade in US, we want to, you know, we want to function in US dollars. And then we'd have an Alberta currency, an Alberta dollar that would be based on, you know, a basket of commodities, including gold, silver, oil, you know, etc, that would be backed by hard, you know, would be backed by hard assets, and would not be a fiat currency.
01:06:55.540It would be back, you know, backed by a basket of hard commodities that Alberta would physically own, right, to, you know, to limit dollar printing, to limit inflation, you know, et cetera.
01:07:06.920You know, we follow, you know, we, you know, we would want, you know, the Alberta dollar to basically follow the model that they're using with regard to the Swiss franc, right?
01:07:14.820It's all backed by, you know, basically, you know, backed by gold and hard assets, right?
01:07:19.340So, you know, that's, you know, that's kind of the model that we'd be looking at going forward.
01:07:22.940what is what does alberta need if it's an independent nation you guys have got all the
01:07:28.240natural resources the oil and gas not sure about minerals water may be an issue what does alberta
01:07:34.600need when it comes to trade with other countries maybe even with canada going forward we don't need
01:07:40.700a we don't need we don't need a damn thing frankly like other than you know i mean obviously you know
01:07:45.580we're going to be buying goods from other places we'd be buying you know you know buying cars from
01:07:50.320other places in the world would be bringing goods in from the united states i mean we'd be
01:07:54.260you know continuing to buy fertilizer from our friends in saskatchewan i mean you know the
01:07:58.760alberta becomes independent we don't become this silo that nothing comes in or out of right
01:08:04.260british columbia is still going to have to move its goods through uh you know through alberta to
01:08:09.360you know to ontario and the rest of the country right um you know goods are going to have to flow
01:08:14.860you know best through alberta to british columbia this idea that alberta is going to be landlocked
01:08:43.440I mean, we can shut down every truck or train leaving British Columbia and say, first of
01:08:47.420all they have to be subject to a two you know two week rat inspection because we don't want any1.00
01:08:51.520bc rats in alberta and uh you know we're gonna have our customers on board and if you think you1.00
01:08:58.400can tariff alberto oil or you know we'll you know we'll slap a throughput tariff on all goods flowing
01:09:03.720from bc and ontario we don't care right and you know and we'd see how long that would last i mean
01:09:08.640people aren't going to cut off their noses to spite their face people are going to behave as
01:09:12.260responsible adults right but you know keep in mind the vote on monday is not for full-blown
01:09:17.960independence the vote is simply to initiate a process and to continue to maintain alberta's
01:09:23.760leverage you know vis-a-vis audible you know in the last year because of the alberta independence
01:09:28.640movement not because of daniel smith you know groveling to mark carney oh mark i love you so
01:09:34.900we love you and i'm a team canada and albert loves canada so please give his stuff you know
01:09:41.960that's not why you know carney's talking to alberta he's in alberta this week because he's
01:09:48.220petrified that albertans are going to cut off the gravy train and that there's going to be no more
01:09:53.180money for you know for all of these schemes that carney has um you know to enrich himself and
01:09:58.840brookfield and all of their billionaire buddies right that's why they're here so why do we want0.98
01:10:03.740to give up that leverage right you know danielle put out some stupid post today about i'm voting0.96
01:10:08.880for option one because it'll strengthen alberta's place within canada well how does giving up all0.94
01:10:14.820of our leverage strengthen our place anywhere danielle and that's what we're saying like0.83
01:10:19.660danielle can't be trusted to negotiate for us she's not a negotiator right she has no idea what
01:10:25.080leverage means she has no idea how to use it right and is literally you know thinks that somehow that0.67
01:10:32.000you know being you know being pretty and groveling and begging and you know all the rest of it is
01:10:37.440you know is getting you know is getting us where we want to go and it's not like hey can you
01:10:41.840the only reason that we're in can you can you can you share can you share that story you shared
01:10:48.600with me this afternoon about o'leary and danielle at mar-a-lago is that cool oh god this is the best
01:10:55.260this photo of uh of danielle smith and kevin o'leary and donald trump right so what i've heard
01:11:02.860from people that i know that are in the trump orbit is that o'leary takes danielle down to0.99
01:11:08.360mar-a-lago right so there's you know that you have those stupid sunshades like you'll see them0.94
01:11:12.440up in parking lots in the summer like you know they have like windshield repair places and0.98
01:11:16.220whatever they have those little sunshade umbrella things little pavilions well she and o'leary
01:11:21.080stood under that a pavilion i'm told for three hours you know not waiting for a meeting with
01:11:26.840donald trump it's simply for a photo and people are walking by and going like who are those two
01:11:30.860people standing over there under that sunshade oh that's the premier of alberta and some guy by the
01:11:35.140name of kevin o'leary like they're just here they want to get a picture of trump and they go oh okay
01:11:39.100well maybe yeah we better find them and we'll get them out of here because this is just silly that0.92
01:11:42.560they're standing around stupid so we'll do that and then out comes trump and they get their picture0.98
01:11:46.340and then danielle tries to spin that into oh i have these great meetings with donald trump she0.99
01:11:51.260didn't have a meeting with donald trump right it was just a photo op right tried to spin into like
01:11:57.180oh look at all the influence she has she doesn't have any influence my understanding is that the
01:12:01.600alberta government uh lobbying firm or representatives in washington are people that
01:12:06.680were connected to the obama administration they're despised by people in the trump
01:12:11.080administration nobody wants to talk to them or deal with them i have better access to the trump
01:12:15.760administration than danielle smith does i mean as frightening as that sounds right and of course
01:12:21.380we go down there we meet with the state department you know we literally as a result of our meetings
01:12:26.000you got scott bestin saying oh i understand that people in alberta with like a pipeline that
01:12:30.140completely bypasses british columbia to go to the west coast of the united states we'd be all over
01:12:35.000that right well why isn't danielle like sending a delegation immediately down to the united states0.99
01:12:40.600to follow up on our meetings and say hey let's talk about this no no instead danielle makes you
01:12:45.580know and then we do that it takes away david eby's power he then oh not jeff roth he's treasonous
01:12:51.700and he's a traitor people need to blah blah blah jeff roth right and you know and then danielle
01:12:57.860her response is to say and we're going to send a strongly worded letter to the united states
01:13:02.580telling them that they can't meet with these people anymore yeah as opposed to say you know
01:13:09.120these are true albertans that are going down there trying to help the province of alberta
01:13:13.260I would like to meet with them personally to talk to them about what it is that they were discussing, who they were meeting with, and how I can get in touch with them and how we can send a delegation, myself, down there to meet directly with these same people that have access to the White House so that we can address all of Alberta's problems and do what my friend Paul St. Pierre-Pierre Lamondon is now doing, which is to have our own direct trading relationship with the United States and telling Mark Carney,
01:13:42.320look all of your insults all of your bullshit all of your el bozo nonsense is doing nothing but1.00
01:13:48.280destroy our relationship with the united states you're incompetent to negotiate with the united1.00
01:13:52.880states henceforth the government of alberta will negotiate directly our own trade arrangement with
01:13:58.120the united states and we expect you to endorse it period because you can't be trusted to do the job
01:14:04.260that you were elected to do which is to make sure that all every region of the country continues to
01:14:09.520thrive in the context of our most important trading relationship right you know why isn't
01:14:15.540daniel doing that if she was a real if she was a real leader that's what she would be doing
01:14:19.820the reason i'm sitting here with a smile on my face is because you are bar none the most
01:14:26.900entertaining guest i have ever had in the six-year history of this show every time you come on i look
01:14:33.320forward to getting a laugh a little bit of well actually a lot of information and just a good time
01:14:39.260with jeff rath here um and and let's wrap it up with this jeff you've been a lawyer for a very
01:14:45.820long time you've had your own firm in southern alberta for a very long time you know what it's
01:14:50.540like sitting back waiting for juries to come to come out uh and if they're deliberating for a
01:14:56.060while is is that a good thing or is that a bad thing and the reason i ask is because i suppose
01:15:00.400we could put the same kind of logic down on you know the more votes we get the worse it's going
01:15:06.560to be for independence or the better it's going to be i don't know how do you see this
01:15:10.060i don't know i i actually think the other side could be shocked i mean i mean i've won cases
01:15:17.260in the supreme court of canada so there's nothing worse than sitting around waiting
01:15:20.520to see what the verdict is from the supremes to find out whether you know what the you know what
01:15:25.240the the smartest jurists in the country think of all of your arguments right so i i've been there
01:15:29.540and i've won nine nothing decisions you know at the supreme court of canada right but um this one
01:15:35.520is interesting right because i was out you know you know my buddy david craigman right so he was
01:15:39.940coming through to visit some in-laws a week or so ago and i met i went up and met david for um
01:15:45.320breakfast up in airdrie this is like literally just uh last weekend right and this waitress
01:15:50.320had overheard our conversation she's what are you talking about it's all we're just talking
01:15:53.400about this and that and i'll burn independence my whole family is fully on board there's over
01:15:59.44030 of us and we're all gonna go out and vote for option two and you know mr rath is there anything
01:16:04.600i can do to help and i said yeah it's not just your family like you've got to go through your
01:16:08.380phone you've got to go through all of your contacts if you care about independence phone
01:16:12.180every friend you have and get as many people as you can to come out and vote because i said it's
01:16:16.920going to be important that we get every single person that feels the same way we do to come out
01:16:21.500and vote for independence right and then i left that meeting here you know that little you know
01:16:25.560that lovely little breakfast with david and then i stopped off at a sporting goods store on the way
01:16:30.060home to buy a fishing lure or something and I'm talking to a clerk in the store and we're chatting
01:16:35.480yeah he says it's going to be really interesting he said because everybody I know is on board with
01:16:41.300independence he said my entire family he says like there's 40 or 50 of us we're all voting
01:16:45.280independence everybody in the store everybody that works here supports independence I don't
01:16:49.920know anybody who doesn't support independence he says I hope it's like the equalization
01:16:54.280referendum and like we get 61 about burdens coming out to vote for independence well they
01:16:59.980all think it's going the other way he said like i'm gonna laugh so hard that's what happens because
01:17:06.020he said all these corrupt politicians that have been screwing us for years aren't gonna know what
01:17:10.780to do right so i mean there's a lot of that you know that you get that sense when you're going
01:17:16.240out and like you know and i go out and i'll go you know and me being me and you know whatever
01:17:19.800I'll go into my bank or whatever. And I'll, you know, and I'll, you know,
01:17:23.080and I literally get in lines in my bank and some people come running in and go,
01:17:26.400Oh my goodness, are you Jeff Rath? And it's like,
01:17:28.160can I get a selfie with you and all this kind of stuff. And, you know,
01:17:30.600so I, you know, it's kind of weird that I'm this sort of weird pocket
01:17:33.300celebrity. I just have never quite not used to it,
01:17:35.760but I'll go into my bank now and I'll, and I'll joke around like in line.
01:17:39.180It's like, Oh, everybody's looking forward to voting for independence.
01:17:41.520And of course the poor tellers can't say anything because they don't want to
01:17:44.020get fired, but you can see them all smiling and nodding.
01:17:46.700everybody's happy and you're sort of gauging your reactions of the people you know just these random
01:17:51.380crowds of people and sure enough there's always you know it's like the covid karens right there's0.99
01:17:55.280always somebody yeah you know like you know senior citizen pensioner with a sour face that's really
01:18:00.960angry or whatever but by and large everywhere you go people seem excited they seem engaged they seem
01:18:06.840you know um uh i don't believe the polls i really don't you know i got you know this suggestion like
01:18:12.740There was a poll that came out today that said 15%, you know,
01:18:17.080we're only 15% we're going to vote for independence.
01:18:34.720And this is a news aggregator, right, out of Edmonton, Alberta, right?
01:18:39.620And I think they looked at their stats the other day,
01:18:42.360like something like 65 percent of their followers are from edmonton you know 15 percent are from
01:18:49.900calgary another percentage from rural alberta and then the rest of it somewhere else in the world
01:18:54.260right but largely alberta-based followers predominantly urban edmonton and calgary and
01:19:00.140they put up a poll um a week or so ago and the poll was do you agree that alberta should cease
01:19:07.740to be a province of canada to become an independent state so the original referendum question binary
01:19:13.140question straight on independence right there are now over 10 000 people so it's a 10 000 person
01:19:19.620sample right 70 in favor of full-on independence right so who knows like i don't believe these
01:19:28.160you know ipsos polls and ecos polls where they have these thousand person curated sample size
01:19:34.580groups that they claim are representative of the province we know those polls aren't representative
01:19:39.100none of our you know most of our people don't want their names on a list because of what carny
01:19:43.800did to people during the convoys seizing bank accounts and you know and all the rest of it
01:19:48.120um you know albertans you know don't really participate in those types of things so i think
01:19:53.180those polls would largely skew you know to the university educated lefties that you know that
01:19:59.000you know would not be the type of people that would vote for independence right so
01:20:02.980So, you know, I don't know where we're at,
01:20:05.460but I think we're a lot closer to 50% than they would like.
01:20:10.280Like, why else would Carney be out here for a week?
01:20:12.480Do you think he'd be wasting his time in Alberta
01:20:15.100instead of flying to Europe and rubbing himself with luxury butter
01:20:18.600if he thought this was in hand and we were going to win?
01:20:22.220Are people actually, Jeff, are people getting...
01:20:27.820are people getting chastised for supporting alberta independence are they getting fired
01:20:35.240like you just pointed out that you don't want poor tellers can't say anything in the banks
01:20:39.020because they don't want to get fired we know of the story i think it was through yeg wave on x
01:20:44.580about the guy who was allegedly kicked out of an oilers game because he was waving
01:20:49.160an alberta flag now i i never saw a video where the dude was waving a flag but you know people
01:20:55.420say that this is true i still have a rough time believing it but people are facing that kind of
01:21:00.020persecution just for being alberta independent supporters oh for sure and i mean don't for
01:21:05.940you know don't forget that um uh you know don't forget that this is a province where like i said
01:21:12.140murray edwards was firing employees and threatening you know and did fire employees who refused to get
01:21:17.580vaccinated right so you know we've got these people that are uh you know uh you know these
01:21:22.860oligarchs right now let's call them what they are they're oligarchs right that um uh you know use
01:21:29.200their economic muscle and use their economic power to oppress people in this province and0.99
01:21:35.600you know people in alberta are very well aware of that right you know like the bank account
01:21:41.240seizures that carney led during the convoy right completely illegal the supreme court you know i'm
01:21:46.640sorry you know uh you know the you know the federal court of appeal you know said it was
01:21:50.640completely illegal completely unconstitutional all of the nonsense that these people do right
01:21:55.780and you know people like people would come up to us during the petition firemen policemen you know
01:22:01.100you name it saying hey guys like we just wanted to tell you like you know uh you know we're just
01:22:06.140here to say that we really support you we can't sign the petitions we'll get fired but we really
01:22:09.760support you right you know and i mean again you know like even during the petition process right
01:22:15.940Like, I mean, every cop and fireman and nurse and anybody that gets a salary, right, can look at their pay stub, put a red circle around how much money they pay in federal income tax and figure out how much better off their family is going to be without having to pay federal income tax anymore, right?
01:22:33.720So, you know, there's all of these, you know, like all of these, you know, tradesmen are on board, police are on board, firemen are on board.
01:22:39.740You know, all of these people that, you know, so-called belong to unions, you know, they're supporting us. Right. You know, not so, you know, the teachers, not so much social workers, not so much, you know, whatever. But again, you know, hardcore blue collar trades, firemen, policemen, paramedics, you know, all of the working trades, anybody that's in construction, anybody that's in the oil field, you know, all of those people are going to be voting for independence.
01:23:04.940So it's going to be really, and keep in mind, none of those people are in one of these little thousand person curated Ipsos poll groups, right?
01:23:14.880So it's going to be really interesting to see what the numbers are, and I'm really hoping that we have a really, really pleasant surprise on Monday.
01:23:22.980But again, I think we get more than 600,000 votes in favor of independence, and the politics of Alberta have changed forever, because we're not going away.
01:23:31.120like we are you guys moving forward we're going to take you know we're going to finish getting rid
01:23:36.060of daniel smith we're going to take over the ucp we're going to have a pro-independence premier
01:23:40.300um you know running the province right and uh you know and we'll see what happens next time
01:23:46.020there's a referendum when you know you know daniel's now set the precedent that we can take
01:23:50.960millions of dollars from alberta you know out of the alberta treasury to advertise one way or
01:23:56.900another in and around an independence referendum so you know next next time we have a referendum
01:24:01.680in alberta you know we're hoping that we have a government that's on board that's spending
01:24:05.520our money for the benefit of albertans by getting alberta out of canada i was uh reading the other
01:24:10.860day where i see that you're not going to be elections alberta says you guys will not be
01:24:15.160allowed scrutineers at any of the polling stations only the ndp and the ucp will be allowed this
01:24:21.380are you concerned there might be a little bit of backroom shenanigans
01:24:24.860well i mean i always say that alberta elections alberta would have no standards at all if it
01:24:32.180didn't have double standards right i mean it's i think it's pretty ridiculous that they're
01:24:35.780excluding the third party um you know these you know the third party advertisers from having
01:24:40.400representatives of scrutineers the only thing that's you know the only thing that's good about
01:24:44.500it is again 80 of the membership of the ucp is pro-independence right i've seen that um you know
01:24:51.560people that have been really openly pro-independence on acts like guys like
01:24:55.580McClelland and, you know, some of these other guys have been posting about it.
01:24:59.060They've basically been cut out of every shift that they're supposed to go on,
01:25:02.340even though they're UCP members and they've been accredited as scrutineers,
01:25:05.520right? If anybody's too blatantly independent or openly independent,
01:25:09.960you know, they're basically been kicked out as scrutineers,
01:25:12.780even though they belong to the UCP, right?
01:25:14.640So there's been a lot of those kinds of shenanigans going on, but there's a lot
01:25:18.460of really you know there's a lot of quiet support from independents of the ucp and a lot of them
01:25:23.800are there as scrutineers i get messages from them every day i've gotten emails from them every day
01:25:28.280telling me what's going on um you know we have we do have a lot of our people on the inside even
01:25:33.940though they're stacking the deck against us it's pretty hard to defeat a movement like ours i mean0.99
01:25:38.360we even have people in the premier's office it's like the day that she made her bullshit announcement0.92
01:25:42.480to have a question about a question i knew what she was going to do and i knew what her question0.82
01:25:46.700was going to be that afternoon you know like you know and i was able to actually go on national
01:25:52.360television and scoop danielle in advance of her speech because somebody in her office who was0.99
01:25:58.280completely disgusted with her for selling out alberta had leaked the question to us in advance
01:26:04.660right so that's funny you know it's it's kind of an interesting right it's an interesting dynamic
01:26:10.820say the least okay so the fracturing of the conservatives and i'm not saying it's completely
01:26:16.260fractured. But as you say, 80 percent of the UCP membership and possibly even supporters across
01:26:22.440the province are pro-independence. That leaves 20 percent that aren't. Could it be that they get so
01:26:28.300upset in the next provincial election? Let's just say this referendum fails for independence. Next
01:26:34.500provincial election is coming up next year. Is it possible the NDP somehow manages to regain power
01:26:40.080in alberta well anything's possible right but this is one of the great things that i've taken
01:26:47.680away from my victory of my friend paul uh in quebec right his victory is he proved right that
01:26:55.500a um largely rural based independence party with less than 30 popular support from former
01:27:03.280government now think about that right and then think about some of the scenarios that might play
01:27:08.440out right so let's say we succeed in removing danielle smith as as leader of the ucp and we
01:27:15.540have a leadership convention within the ucp and we elect a pro-independence leader of the ucp
01:27:20.720right and then all of the kennyites right he basically been running danielle smith like a
01:27:26.020puppet since she became leader right um decide to split and firm their own party like they've
01:27:31.260been threatening to do to danielle from the day that she was elected leader right so now we have
01:27:35.960the NDP right we have the you know like all the provincial generals aren't really a force at all
01:27:40.140but we have Guthrie's group right we're going to have you know whatever group Kenny's going to form
01:27:46.200when they split off from the UCP because they're the rump right they're this weird federalist rump
01:27:51.760of a party that's now largely if not entire you know like largely pro-independence right
01:27:57.320and in any other democracy that's why I say Smith and Kenny are so anti-democratic
01:28:01.600Right. 80% of the UCP favors independence, but this 20% rump or boil on a rump, let's call them what they are, puss-filled boil on the rump of the UCP, are, you know, are literally the ones that are in charge and they're saying, well, the rest of you, you're the ones that are splitting and you're going to get the NDP elected, blah, blah, blah.
01:28:21.180Wait a minute. This is a democracy. So if you're in the minority and you're 20% and we're 80%, you need to get along with us. We don't need to get along with you. Right.
01:28:30.260so either you know get along or you know go form your own globalist socialist party which is what
01:28:37.020they all are they're all a bunch of global socialists right i now call them you know it's
01:28:40.700like you have national socialists well these guys are global socialists i call them glaxies instead
01:28:45.120of nazis they're the same freaking thing right so you know they can go form their own glazi party
01:28:50.600and uh you know and then we'll see what happens because then we have the same situation they've
01:28:54.760out in quebec right we're gonna have a largely rural you know um uh um pro-independence party
01:29:00.980we're gonna have um you know this vlatsy party right which would sort of be the equivalent of
01:29:06.440the quebec conservatives then but probably more left-wing believe it or not because kenny's just
01:29:11.360a freaking socialist um you know we're gonna have guthrie's group lukasic announced today that he
01:29:16.400wants to start a political party right the remain in canada dude right the remain communist dude0.97
01:29:21.800wants to start his own political party and then we're going to have the ndp so the question is
01:29:26.340going to be you know how many votes are these other groups in the middle you know the lukastic's
01:29:32.140group the group the glazes the you know whatever you're going to pull away from the ndp and does
01:29:37.940that leave room for the you know for an alberta independence party to form a government under the
01:29:43.260banner of the ucp who knows i mean the future you know for as far as i'm concerned is wide open
01:29:48.320it's too early to speculate about any of these things and i think you know i think an ndp victory
01:29:53.860in 2027 is you know as far from you know as far from certain uh you know i mean let's face it
01:29:59.560who's gonna elect you know nancy nancy then you know like he's the most picker nancy i mean i
01:30:05.340really i don't see it i don't see nobody nobody's ever gonna be elected premier
01:30:10.480seriously i think he's unelectable he's unelectable yeah look that's kind of how we
01:30:17.220feel about everybody he's a big joe right let's talk about the questions on the referendum ballot
01:30:23.420there are nine and there is a a movement on social media right now saying decline the nine
01:30:30.020does that mean no to everything where did he go oh he's coming back for one more question i don't
01:30:38.360there he is here all right you left and now you're back so the nine questions is it no to everything
01:30:44.700people are asking me if they only vote on option two uh and not in any any of the other questions
01:30:51.120will their ballot be declined no no because what they do and i that's exactly what i did i went
01:30:58.260in to vote yesterday because i wanted to check it out so i could talk to our supporters and talk to0.99
01:31:02.380people that are voting right that's all you have to say it's like i don't want those stupid nine0.99
01:31:06.980ballots right they're dumb questions right um they're nonsensical i refuse to insult my0.99
01:31:13.260intelligence by casting a vote on whether or not you know we should abolish the canadian senate i0.98
01:31:19.560mean you know at that point danielle should be ashamed of herself abolish the canadian senate
01:31:23.820she could have just as easily say do you support you know an elected senate like why would we
01:31:29.580abolish it right that uh you know that's you know equal and effective where every province has you
01:31:34.880know an equal number of senate seats like you know why wouldn't we do that you know that was
01:31:39.200the big you know that was the big platform of the reform party for years the triple e senate right
01:31:43.700yeah no we're going to abolish it right i mean how are you going to abolish the senate it's part
01:31:48.820of the bedrock of the canadian constitution it's written right into the constitution act 1867
01:31:53.960right so without reopening the constitution and amending the constitution act 1867 there's no way
01:32:01.400to get rid of the senate you know you're insulting our intelligence by you know even asking the
01:32:07.460question we're more likely to be able to vote canada or alberta out of canada by following
01:32:12.720the clarity act and the secession reference than you ever would be in abolishing the senate and why
01:32:18.260would we waste our time doing that when we can just go for independence so what i'm telling0.95
01:32:22.600everybody that this is what i did right i said i don't want to answer those stupid nine questions0.69
01:32:27.700at all just give me question 10 right so i can merely mark option two down and put it in one0.59
01:32:34.080ballot box and walk out the other reason is of course you've heard you know what i think of0.99
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