Western Standard - November 06, 2023


The youngest MLA in the Alberta Legislature just destroyed woke culture

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Frederick Haltain Speaker
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

146.8

Word count

330

Sentence count

22


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Learn English with Rachel Notley. Alberta s first female premier Rachel May delivers her maiden speech in the House of Commons on the first day of her campaign for the federal election campaign. Rachel, the first woman to run for Prime Minister and wife of former Prime Minister Ralph Notley, took office on October 9, 2015.

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00:00:00.000 I got into politics to sustain the Alberta we love and to expand on the strength and freedom that nourish the Alberta spirit.
00:00:08.060 We are strong when we are free, and we are free when we are strong.
00:00:12.340 To sustain our strength and freedom and to ensure that these principles remain a beacon for generations to come,
00:00:19.740 Alberta must face two sets of related challenges, simultaneously internal and external.
00:00:25.500 First is the woke culture of progressives, which includes radical environmentalism and an obsession with identity politics.
00:00:34.240 Woke progressive culture is a creature that feeds on division, sown by inventive grievances.
00:00:40.580 It is a creature that reduces and diminishes people to narrow identities.
00:00:44.980 It is a creature that opposes freedom of expression in the public square and in our schools and universities.
00:00:50.900 It is a creature that scorns science, faith and hope.
00:00:55.500 Woke progressive culture is a creature hostile to the core traditions of Albertans and who we are.
00:01:02.620 It divides friends and families.
00:01:05.300 It pits parents against children, citizens against neighbours and workers against businesses.
00:01:11.160 It is a creature that afflicts many, chief among them our friends across the aisle, Mr. Speaker.
00:01:16.100 And in this execution of that progressive plan, we are seeing an attack on Albertans, on our provincial identity, our energy sector, our farms and ranches, our institutions and our families.
00:01:29.100 We are seeing an assault on parental rights and authority, tacitly endorsed by Ottawa with new Democrat complicity.
00:01:37.780 And this is wrong.
00:01:38.780 As the main founder of our province, the famously pragmatic Frederick Haltain often repeated, there is no compromise with wrong.
00:01:48.340 The family is the fundamental building block of society and how citizens naturally pass on the torch of culture.
00:01:56.140 Healthy and strong families beget strong communities and healthy societies.
00:02:01.600 Without strong families, individuals quickly become vassals of the state.
00:02:06.460 There is no culture without families.
00:02:08.120 And our coalition was built on this principle and on the promise that families are protected from state intrusions.