00:13:42.240Some of the attitude out of the press conference, I was watching it just before I came in here with Premier Smith talking about, you know, there's no room for full out independence.
00:13:51.580Now, I don't know if there's no room for independent supporters within the party, but it's just that's not on the party's mandate at this time.
00:13:56.900It doesn't mean you can't be an independent supporter and still be in the car.
00:14:01.240As I said, think of things on how we get closer to our goal.
00:14:04.400I think you should still stay involved.
00:14:06.140Still make sure you're getting independence-friendly people in there.
00:22:00.560And the lady that was working at the registration desk was not only by herself dealing with all the people that were coming in, but she worked eight hours straight without a break.
00:22:10.220She wasn't allowed to go on break because there was no one else to cover for her.1.00
00:22:13.180If she left to go on break, the registration desk would have to be closed for 30 minutes.
00:22:16.940And they let that happen until the next person came in to take her ship.
00:22:20.920So unfortunately, from beginning to end, it was just it was poorly organized.
00:22:26.700So, well, there's a couple of things we need to do.
00:22:28.760One of which was, and it is hard because you're talking about the new driver's licenses showing, you know, potential citizenship and such, but that's still a tiny minority of those at this point.
00:22:37.360One of the questions on the ballot actually was possibly making it so that we have a better form of identification.
00:22:45.860You think that would solve it, though?
00:22:47.260I mean, we should just have some sort of generalized identification to show a person's citizenship status.
00:22:51.500I mean, that just so it can be clearly and quickly checked so you don't have to do a big paper chase in the front, especially when you only have one person at a desk.
00:27:29.440I mean, hey, that's democracy, you know.
00:27:31.380I didn't vote yes on all the questions.
00:27:33.240I didn't vote no down on all the questions.
00:27:34.940That's why we were trying to talk to students about throughout this entire campaign. Don't listen to the people to say, just go vote one way, just because people are telling you to actually read the questions to what you want to see in reforms or autonomy in this province and go vote for with with your heart. And guess what? You know, majority of them voted yes on a majority of these questions, even though the separation question didn't go through.
00:27:56.100I am satisfied that a lot of these autonomous questions like fighting for immigration reform went through that passed with a resounding majority.
00:28:05.920And I'm hoping that we can hopefully Smith and the UCP can make some good reforms with that.
00:28:10.120They have the mandate for it now. Hopefully, if they win the next election next year, they actually implement it instead of, you know, sitting on a chair.
00:28:17.780I hope we can certainly make the processes better. So before I let you go, I want to talk a little more, though, about your your own activity.
00:28:23.020You're a young person. You've been excellently active on university campuses and having discussions.
00:28:28.060Unfortunately, it's a rarity to see an outspoken young libertarian out there.
00:28:33.080What have you been getting up to on the ground in Alberta with your political stuff and how you've been helping with, you know, youth outreach?
00:28:39.240Because it's always harder to get young people involved in things.
00:28:42.140Yep. Well, my entire platform has been trying to get the youth out for this movement.
00:28:47.740Ever since my by-election last year in Bow River Crowfoot, my main objective has been building towards this referendum and getting the young people at U of C, SAID, M, or U of A involved in it.
00:28:59.380Whether they want to be against it or whether they want to be for it, get involved with it because there was a lot of apathy at the very beginning.
00:29:05.940How I started with the campaign was actually volunteering with both the Forever Canada petition and State Free Alberta petition to get them to have tables and volunteers set up on campuses to speak with students about this referendum and their positions.
00:29:21.480Specifically, State Free Alberta, we set up seven different tables at the University of Calgary campus to be able to talk with students and get their signatures towards that petition.
00:29:31.860That's how it started. That's how the talk on campus started about this referendum and about independence. But it evolved into a small student rally that we had in September of this year, where we got people to be acknowledging that this referendum exists.
00:29:48.580There's a lot of people like the RCP, the Revolutionary Communist Party, that would say that this referendum question was just fascist.
00:29:54.820Anybody that voted yes was was a fascist.
00:29:56.700And we tried to basically change that view.
00:30:01.400We're voting for our future isn't fascist to want change.
00:30:05.020It isn't fascist to want to vote on something.
00:30:08.000And it ended off with us working with the Political Review Club.
00:30:12.500It's an excellent organization on campus that allows for organizations to come in and speak with issues with students.
00:30:19.360And I worked with them and Let's Talk Alberta to end off the campaign.
00:30:24.140Speaking individually with students about each question, like I said previously, don't vote yes or no, depending on what people are telling you to.
00:30:37.020Let's see if you actually support what's being asked and go and vote yes or no, depending on what those values are.
00:30:42.060And surprisingly, a lot of students came forward to support these efforts, whether it be volunteers or people that were just generally curious about what the referendum was about and how they could vote.
00:30:52.140And throughout the last day, the last day that we set up our table, which was three days before the advanced polling opened up,
00:31:00.520we had hundreds of students come up and said that they were going to be voting option two because they were dissatisfied with how this government was running our generation into the ground,
00:31:10.560that they're making it harder for young people to be able to afford a home,
00:31:13.740to be able to make a business, to be able to live.
00:31:16.360And they were willing to put their foot down
00:31:17.800and send a message to Ottawa to get that done.
00:31:20.640And we're not even anywhere near close to being done.
00:31:24.040You know, I'm going to be going into the grad program here soon
00:31:27.040to finish up my master's degree and hopefully get a PhD in poli-sci.
00:31:31.860So the Fayon campus will continue over the next couple of years here.
00:38:07.680So, you know, somebody said something along the lines of the comment went away already,
00:38:11.780but with Smith saying she's going to kick independent supporters out of the party.
00:38:15.480I didn't gather that from the conference what I saw, but the bottom line was saying,
00:38:19.160yeah, she doesn't expect candidates to put that on the table when they run.0.95
00:38:21.800That's not on the mandate of the party members.
00:38:25.220Again, let's look at political realism, guys, please.
00:38:28.780If we've got a bunch of candidates running in a year from now, if they all came in and they wore it on their sleeve saying, I'm campaigning on full Alberta independence, the best they could hope for province-wide if things don't change extremely dramatically would be 24%.
00:38:45.880The other way to spell that is Premier Nenshi.
00:38:52.400We need to build the base, then work the party.
00:38:56.040We're trying to do it the other way around.
00:38:58.780You don't want a party being led by somebody in a small minority position on something.