00:04:09.000Not so much that the NDP should be embracing secessionism, but that they don't appear to be a party willing to stand up to Ottawa and Alberta's behalf.
00:04:17.780I mean, unity has been a top issue since the last federal election when the Liberals were kept in power.
00:04:23.360The Alberta independence movement has blossomed.
00:04:25.500And while there might not be a majority support for provincial independence, it's all but assured a referendum on the issue is going to be held this fall.
00:04:32.180But not Albertans want to vote for independence.
00:04:34.080They do see Ottawa and the Liberal government as the greatest threat to Alberta's well-being right now.
00:04:39.200They want to feel confidence that the Premier of Alberta will put Alberta first.
00:04:43.720And Nenshi just can't provide that confidence.
00:04:46.440The NDP under Rachel Notley's premiership was tight with former Prime Minister Trudeau.
00:04:50.860In fact, Notley even appeared a little besotted with him during public appearances together.
00:04:55.420Nenshi was only a little less doe-eyed while attending events with Trudeau, while he was Calgary's mayor.
00:05:00.940While Trudeau is thankfully ridden off into the sunset to pursue pop stars,
00:05:05.200the hangover from his tenure remains in Alberta,
00:05:07.960and those closely associated with him are not well received by Alberta voters.
00:05:13.340Carney might be brighter than Trudeau,
00:05:15.020but he's still perceived by Albertans to be somebody to be guarded against,
00:05:18.680and the NDP just doesn't inspire confidence on that front.
00:05:22.540Alberta's NDP is also still subservient to the federal party,
00:05:26.500despite their decoupling of memberships between branches of the party.
00:05:30.320Nancy still has to answer to the federal leader of the NDP, according to their party constitution.
00:05:35.340Singh's complete capitulation to Trudeau in Parliament showed where the federal NDP stand on that front.
00:05:40.340Premier Smith has masterfully played both sides, actually, when it comes to the independence movement in Alberta.
00:05:45.200She constantly reiterates she wants Alberta to remain within Canada,
00:05:49.400but has provided and supported the mechanism for triggering an independence referendum.
00:05:53.480Now, Smith can make demands of the federal government and point to the growth and the support for independence
00:05:58.440when the feds shoot those demands down.
00:06:00.180She hasn't put herself into the sovereignist camp, but has successfully placed herself in the role as a key defender of Alberta.
00:06:06.960Nietzsche is never going to gain ground, and unless he can convince Albertans, he'll put the interest of Alberta before the federal government.
00:06:14.300And that's a tall order for a man who tied himself that tightly to the Trudeau regime.
00:06:17.720He's going to have to find a way to distance himself from his staunch federalism while not appearing a sympathetic course to the independence movement, and that's probably impossible for him to do.
00:06:26.340Unless Ninchy can figure it out, though, the UCP is going to continue to gain support no matter how many political gifts they offer to the NDP.
00:06:33.640So that's kind of a bright news story to kick off things today.
00:06:36.060Let's see what else is going on in the news out there.
00:06:37.980Check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor, who's in the confines of the newsroom there.
00:08:55.580We've got your favorite guy, Nahid Nenshi, telling Daniel Smith to stop her word salad and to pick a side in the referendum.
00:09:06.260And we've got Trudeau, or sorry, not Trudeau, I can't get him out of my mind. Carney has abolished the offices of the Islamophobia czar and the anti-Semitism czar, and he's going to mix them all and put them all under one big tent.
00:12:27.600Take advantage of that volume discount, right?
00:12:29.780And it gets you past the paywall, supports Dave, the other Dave, all the folks we got in the newsroom there, Leah, and our folks across the country.
00:16:17.580So, I mean, it's just something people don't think of, but they forget that, you know, aside from lower mainland B.C., British Columbians are Western Canadians and they aren't all as thrilled with Ottawa as some people might imagine.
00:16:30.640Well, you know, the rationale for independence in Alberta is the same as rationale for independence in British Columbia.
00:29:09.580into the hands of judges and politicians
00:29:11.880who can actually bring something about in it.
00:29:13.840And seeing Francis Whitteson and Dallas Brody out there, the backlash against them and how hysteric and out of control and vitriolic it's been only tells me that they're over the target.
00:29:27.580The people who are benefiting from the system, who are the minority of a minority, are feeling threatened, which I think is a good sign, actually.
00:29:35.580Yeah, when you see those hysterics and those antics and actually outright violence, like what we saw at UBC and at Thompson Rivers University.
00:30:46.080and uh just recently i've decided to launch my own more uh more q a focused what late and great
00:30:54.800called it socreatic events where we're talking to people about alberta independence listening
00:31:00.620to their opposition points or their uh you know their fears of independence and talking through
00:31:05.100it that the first event is in rimby on february 18th that's going to be fantastic and we're even
00:31:10.980going to serve a little food there too so it'll be fun but that's that's going to be my year you
00:31:14.220know, trying to manage the cafe, all our extra stuff we have with that, really advocating for
00:31:20.820Alberta independence, because this is the most important thing we can do in our lifetime,
00:31:25.600probably. And Corey, I'm really looking forward to having you at some of those events with us as
00:31:29.760well, because you're, you know, you're a wealth of knowledge and information about Alberta
00:31:33.720independence. And even my grandpa here, he remembers from the early 90s, when the independence
00:31:39.060movement was talked about in Alberta, and he remembers your work. So it has an impact.
00:31:44.220right on i'm glad some folks can still remember those early efforts i like to think i've learned
00:31:49.660a lot since well i'm sure i'll see you at one of those events without doubt we're going to cross
00:31:53.980paths as you said it's going to be a crazy busy summer so thanks for taking the time to talk to
00:31:58.120us today and taking the time to talk to those folks out in camel river i'm really looking forward
00:32:01.420to things taking off for them out there and uh well we'll talk again soon sounds good my pleasure
00:32:06.620thanks cory right on thanks so one more time folks that is chris scott from the whistle stop
00:32:12.040camp cafe that's out in mirror alberta it's got a central alberta a little uh east and north hair
00:32:18.020from red deer and i honestly i i go out on my way the odd time jane sent me to edmonton to get stuff
00:32:22.580and everything i pop off the highway if i got time to grab a bite and i like it just like i said with
00:32:27.020paul's pizza it is good food i don't have to try and bs to help a friend or fellow advocate in fact
00:32:33.240i would just say nothing if the food wasn't any good and i'd just say go support him because of
00:32:36.300activism you won't be disappointed grabbing a lunch uh in mirror at that place and as i was
00:32:42.380talking about earlier you know it's boy it's a gamble to mix your your business with your uh
00:32:48.380you know your your political activism i guess you could say i i owned a pub and cafe for years
00:32:53.420it was a tough tough go and i gotta admit i didn't have the courage they did i didn't uh
00:32:59.820hold political activities i was always political and doing all my things elsewhere and everything
00:33:03.500but i didn't do anything within my pub just because i didn't want to deal with the nuts
00:33:07.500and we would still get people you know attacking us on the google reviews and crap like that
00:33:11.740again pretty sad case that what they have to do is make up false food reviews either way lots of
00:33:17.020people showing courage all over the place uh so you know let's talk about uh some of the things
00:33:23.420that this is one of the biggest hang-ups people keep pushing against with the independence movement
00:33:27.660chris was talking about it and others and this is one of the biggest threats to canada is the
00:33:31.900catastrophic state the first nations are in it's a mess and we're pretending it's a viable mess
00:33:39.100we're pretending there's a future that's good for anybody under the current system and mess
00:33:46.140the only ones getting served are lawyers who do lawsuits on behalf of first nations bureaucrats
00:33:51.820who work in departments that serve first nations and some of the leadership within first nations
00:33:55.900otherwise everybody else in first nations is losing and we're perpetuating a myth
00:34:02.620that these first nations have a veto over everything else that everybody else in canada
00:34:07.180does this this five percent of the country has a veto authority over the rest of the nation and
00:34:13.980they don't and nor should they for a couple of reasons for one we shouldn't give race-based
00:34:18.940authority to anybody that was the wrong that allegedly should be you know undone by current
00:34:24.060contemporary policy yes first nations people were treated as second-class citizens well up into the
00:34:29.02060s and that was wrong but you can't change that by bringing in more race-based policy
00:34:35.420the other part where it's wrong is look at the state of their affairs and do you you really want
00:34:40.620to ask yourself do you want to hand over the reins of governance to the principles of these reserves
00:34:47.020as dave mentioned they've declared a state of emergency on the blood reserve there's a video
00:34:51.420on my personal channel i gave a tour of the blood reserve if you want to check it out search cory
00:34:54.620morgan on youtube i went out there and actually toured on the ground to show the conditions of
00:34:57.980that reserve along with the six okay reserve every reserve they're a mess they got wild dogs running
00:35:03.260loose attacking people and if you want to research and google that wild dogs have killed children on
00:35:09.980reserves multiple times over the years everywhere from new brunswick back out west this is a chronic
00:35:18.140problem on every reserve why we don't have feral dogs happening anywhere else even the smallest of
00:35:23.980the most underfunded rural towns can manage to maintain a dog catcher and their population
00:35:31.900spays and neuters their pets because that's what's happening why is it happening well like
00:35:38.540anyone else you know first nation citizens want to have house pets and that's fine of course it's
00:35:42.140great but this is the outcome and it's symbolic and it's real of decades of infantilization of
00:35:51.080the people on reserves most of which involves telling them all anything and everything that
00:35:57.740goes wrong in your life is somebody else's fault there's a complete lack of sense of personal
00:36:04.060responsibility for anything it's people living for the moment not looking ahead for next month
00:36:11.180next week next year and just not taking responsibility that's why the housing is in
00:36:16.940some of the condition it's in and it's just not even a consideration to even spay and neuter the
00:36:21.680pets so of course they breed like crazy well they're not going to take care of the puppies
00:36:24.960so those run loose they become feral and you have wild dog populations the only places with feral
00:36:31.200dog populations going on in the whole country are in on native reserves and it's on all of them
00:36:36.300really lets you know just how messed up things are there unfortunately so again people saying
00:36:42.540we can't allow independence we can't allow change for the sake of the indigenous people really
00:36:46.280really get out there on the reserve then if you don't want to watch my videos it's fine go out
00:36:50.960and see for yourself and try to convince yourself that the status quo is actually serving the people
00:36:56.720living on those reserves in houses that are falling apart they don't know how to maintain
00:37:02.260their own water wells and septic systems. That's another issue. Why is there no clean water on
00:37:06.320reserves? Clean water on reserves? Well, whose responsibility is that? Every other municipality
00:37:11.220in the country is responsible for its own water. The First Nations reserves get billions and billions
00:37:17.560and billions of dollars. Yet somehow, it's still allegedly everybody else's responsibility that
00:37:24.660they get clean water. It's led to them being incapable of maintaining the things for the
00:37:29.620clean water unfortunately even when you try even when they're giving money expressly for that
00:37:33.940unfortunately again we've taken away accountability we aren't allowed to audit them anymore so we don't
00:37:38.520even know if the money goes to giving clean water so guess what happens corruption look at the
00:37:45.820Cowichan Reserve one of the biggest unchecked garbage dumps in Canada look at the footage of
00:37:51.400what happened there it's going to cost tens of millions maybe hundreds of millions to clean up
00:37:56.680It's that mess of them charging people a discounted rate to dump garbage on their land, which they did, commercial massive amounts of dumped trash until it finally got exposed right next to a river.
00:38:11.080That mess is going to be leeching into the water, these stewards of the environment.