Western Standard - October 17, 2026


FILDEBRANDT： Alberta’s independence fight is about saving what remains

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Filzebranson
Independence Debate at the CSFN Calgary 2026 NATION OF PEOPLE ｜ What does Alberta do after the referendum？

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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

153.83

Word count

552

Sentence count

26

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3

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Four-minute opening statement from Mr. Filzebranson.
00:00:03.340 Quebec's heart is for independence, but her head tells her that she must remain in Canada.
00:00:09.160 Alberta's head knows that we can be independent, but Alberta's heart is still very much Canadian.
00:00:15.720 Most of you have already heard most of the economic and physical and constitutional arguments for independence,
00:00:22.580 and so I won't dwell on them too much here.
00:00:24.400 It is in our hearts where the debate on independence hurts us the most.
00:00:30.000 My earliest ancestors in Canada came here more than 300 years ago.
00:00:34.720 They conquered, settled, and built one of the world's great nations.
00:00:39.200 But that nation is gone.
00:00:42.120 That nation is infected by a self-loathing, suicidal empathy that plagues most Western nations.
00:00:49.220 But unlike the United States, the United Kingdom, France, or Germany,
00:00:52.660 there is precious little light at the end of the tunnel that gives us hope
00:00:57.280 that Canada has the willpower to save itself.
00:01:01.040 Only regionally concentrated pockets in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec,
00:01:05.420 Interior BC and rural Ontario have any sense of nationhood left
00:01:09.300 that they are willing to fight for.
00:01:11.860 Most of the rest of Canada has consigned itself to die comfortably 0.51
00:01:16.540 as a globalized, multicultural, physical transfer zone.
00:01:21.440 Nations are the greatest possible expression of an extended family.
00:01:24.260 They have ties of kinship, language, faith, tradition, history, culture and heritage.
00:01:33.380 What ties do we now have left with much of the rest of Canada?
00:01:38.580 Those parts of Canada that have not already seen its population replaced have seen a critical
00:01:43.440 mass of the Canadian population repudiate what makes them Canadian.
00:01:48.100 They tear down the statues of our founding fathers.
00:01:51.020 They acquiesced to the lowering of the maple leaf in self-flagellating shame for months
00:01:55.640 to atone for a genocide that we know was a hoax. 0.91
00:01:59.320 They opened the floodgates of third-world mass migration that is destroying the inheritance 0.96
00:02:03.920 passed on to us by our ancestors.
00:02:06.800 And they call us racist when we oppose it.
00:02:09.500 They cheered the use of emergency war powers to violently and unconstitutionally crush
00:02:14.260 a peaceful protest of flag-waving Canadians, many of them Albertans, that were sick of
00:02:19.180 of having their freedoms crushed
00:02:20.340 on the altar of COVID hysteria.
00:02:23.020 They were ashamed of the Canadian flag
00:02:25.200 until we raised Alberta's blue shield in defiance.
00:02:28.900 And now they have the temerity to call us unpatriotic
00:02:33.500 for wanting to save our part of Canada.
00:02:36.740 That description of self-hating post-national
00:02:39.460 global citizens surely does not fit fairly
00:02:42.740 the description described the Federalists
00:02:45.520 that are in this room or my debating partners
00:02:47.540 this stage but it does make up a very large portion of the federalist campaign here in alberta
00:02:53.300 and it makes up much of the electorate and governing class outside of alberta and a few
00:02:58.180 other like-minded pockets all that we are left with is a post-national state whose primary
00:03:04.340 function is the transfer of wealth between peoples and provinces the candidate that you love united
00:03:10.820 by kinship, language, faith, tradition, history, culture and heritage is gone and if you search
00:03:18.900 your hearts you will know that it is not coming back. We are trying to save our part of Canada
00:03:26.660 by declaring that our portion of it is proud of its inheritance and is willing to fight
00:03:32.100 to hand it to our posterity stronger than we found it.