Sheila Gunn-Reid examines Alberta’s rising separatist movement, fueled by Western frustration over Justin Trudeau’s Liberal victory amid perceived federal corruption. Jann Arden’s profanity-laced attacks and Kris Wells’ threats of revoked pensions and citizenship—despite legal experts like Keith Wilson debunking such claims—highlight federal overreach. Gunn-Reid contrasts Alberta’s Indigenous healthcare initiatives with Ottawa’s $1.2B unaccounted reserve payment, accusing systemic racism. Independence, she argues, isn’t just about economics but cultural survival, framing it as a necessary break from "incompatible" federal governance. [Automatically generated summary]
Today we're checking in on the people seeking to discredit the sovereigntist movement in Alberta.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
The Sovereignist Movement here in Alberta is maintaining a slow momentum after the post-election spike that it had, after the Liberals were rewarded for 10 years of corruption and incompetence by voters in the eastern parts of this country with another term.
A lot of baby separatists were born here in the West.
And so after the election results, the sovereigntist movement here in Alberta became super heated.
It's temperature is coming down a little, but it's still percolating.
And with that, a lot of people on the other side are losing their marbles in their best efforts to scare people into staying.
In fact, here is Canadian recording artist Jan Arden making her best arguments to keep Albertans in the country.
Listen to this.
Hey, Alberta.
Hey, a bunch of fucking separatist wackos.
How you doing?
Feeling good about yourselves?
You're an embarrassment to this country.
Everything you have, everything that you have enjoyed, cherished, and benefited from comes from being part of one of the greatest countries on the planet.
You guys have your heads so far up your asses that you obviously can't see what pricks you are.
The way you are treating Indigenous people, the way you are treating your fellow citizens, your fellow Canadians, you guys are a bunch of creepy little pricks.
Alberta will never separate from Canada.
It's never going to happen because people like me are going to stand up, throw their shoulders back and keep fucking yelling and keep standing up for what I know is right.
And what you guys are doing is.
All right.
So Jan's got me convinced with her strong, completely level headed and absolutely sane arguments.
Calling people names, that's what's going to keep them in the country.
Good job, Jan.
But she's not the only one.
Justin Trudeau's radical sex activist senator from Alberta, Chris Wells, is making threats saying that, sure, Albertans can vote to leave, but they'll get no pension.
They'll have their citizenships revoked and a whole host of other things from the liberals who are perfectly fine with terrorists, foreign-born terrorists maintaining their Canadian citizenship.
Albertans born of two Canadian citizens would not be able to keep their citizenship under the twisted logic of the liberal senator from Alberta.
But he also is not the only crazy person making this completely unhinged and I think not grounded in law argument.
Alberta's former premier, Jason Kenney, who once underestimated the anger of Albertans, particularly on his mishandling of COVID, he's making many of the same arguments.
And as the former immigration minister of this country, he should know better.
Now, joining me to discuss this and more is my friend and Alberta sovereigntist, Corey Morgan.
Take a listen.
So joining me now is Corey Morgan.
He's a senior columnist at the Western Standard, a columnist at the Epoch Times, and the author of the, and I don't think I'm exaggerating here, and I will take some credit for it, the best-selling book, The Sovereigntist Handbook, Charting the Course to Western Independence.
And Corey has been very gracious with his time as Rebel News is planning town halls.
We've held two already about the prospect of Western separation or Western sovereignty.
I would consider him an expert in this and a bit of a historian on Western separation.
And we're getting told, Corey, to shut up because they will take all of our benefits of being Canadian away, the things we paid into.
And so I just, I thought I'd have you on to discuss that and the usual suspects rearing their ugly heads.
But before we get into that, if I've missed something about who and what you are, now's your chance to fill in the blanks.
Oh, you've covered it better than I ever could.
Thank you.
Now, our former premier, who underestimated the anger of Albertans once already, has learned nothing.
Jason Kenney, and joined by the likes of Senator for Alberta, Professor Chris Wells, who's a radical sex activist.
The two of them have popped up to say that, okay, fine, you can be separatists.
You can even leave the country, but you're not taking your pensions with you.
You're not taking your citizenship with you.
You're not taking any of the things that you've paid into for all this time.
What do you think about that?
They're hollow and bittered words, but if anything, they're helping the independence movement.
I mean, it's threatening us isn't the way to keep us here, especially when there's nothing to it.
My mother is an American citizen.
She left Canada back in the early 90s.
She still has Canadian citizenship, should she choose to come back, though.
She still collects her pension that she paid into throughout her working career while in Canada.
And even if, if we walked down that road of the West becoming independent and it happened, we had a positive vote, well, as per the Clarity Act, that means that the negotiations are going to begin.
So if Canada was going to say, well, you know what, Alberta, we're just going to screw you on those billions we owe you out of the Canada pension plan, that's fine.
It'll make it easier for us to say, well, you know, that giant trillion-dollar national debt you thought we were going to take a piece of, we're not paying that.
So we will get our pound of flesh one way or another.
Jason Kenney and that creepy Mr. Wells can go on all they like on this.
If anything, I mean, Wells really represents part of why we want to leave.
That man does not represent virtually anybody in Alberta, yet he's one of our senators.
So go ahead, you know, Jason, go ahead, Mr. Wells.
You're only making my job easier as a person who's trying to bring Alberta to the tipping point of independence.
I mean, Chris Wells, the fact that he is a senator at all speaks to the problem with the relationship between Alberta and Ottawa.
It is, or at least it has been before Justin Trudeau came along.
It was an accepted thing that Albertans, to avoid opening up the Constitution, we would elect our senators.
And then they would be appointed by the prime minister.
that had happened just fine and dandy until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came along and disregarded the will of the people.
I think Mike Shaik was the senator in waiting.
And instead we got Justin Trudeau's selection, Paula Simons.
And I think it's Erica Barutz.
And we got Chris Wells instead.
So Erica was the choice of Albertans.
We got Justin Trudeau's choice instead.
And he, as I said, he's a radical progressive gender activist.
Not the choice of Albertans.
Our will was completely disregarded.
Our culture, I think, was completely disregarded in that choice.
And now he's sitting with his healthy taxpayer salary, telling the rest of us to sit down, shut up, or else.
Well, yeah, I mean, in appointing Wells as a senator, Justin did as the Kearney supporter standing there with his middle fingers extended to everybody else.
Because, okay, fine, you're not going to accept elected senators.
No liberal government ever does.
But if you really at all cared about the system, if you really were even a little bit genuine, you would find it, you know, there's a few relatively moderate liberals you could have put in that position.
I would even say Paula Simon's, okay, she's always been a lefty, but that's a little bit acceptable.
But to get a weirdo activist, and that's what Wells is, I mean, as far left as you can find and put them in as a senator, that is extending a middle finger to the province.
That's saying, you know, not just, I'm not going to respect your elected senators, but I'm going to go as far to the polar opposite side of what you want and stick that in there on your behalf.
But that's fine.
He can sit there as a testament to just how broken and embittered our system is and lets us know what Central Canada and the leadership thinks of us.
Yeah, I mean, if there was ever a colonizer, that dude is it.
Now, I want to talk to you a little bit more about the threats of Canadian citizenship being revoked from Alberta separatists if they so choose.
And I think that's the point I want to keep reiterating here.
It is up for Albertans to choose, that their citizenship would be taken away upon leaving Confederation.
Within the Commonwealth, that's really not how it's been.
When Ireland seceded, I guess, from the UK, those Irish citizens also got to keep their British citizenship.
And even if that were something that Albertans didn't want or a vast majority of Albertans didn't want, by virtue of having two Canadian parents, don't they get to qualify for Canadian citizenship?
I mean, I'm not taking advice about this from a prime minister with like a handful of citizenships.
I hope that when the time comes, they're just not that bitter.
As you said, other nations would have, you know, parted ways and still remained part of the Commonwealth, maintain that good relationship and accepting that there's common citizenry among them.
But to be honest, if we're at the point where, you know, a clear majority of the provinces voted to leave, I don't think people care.
We're going to have Alberta passports.
Fine.
And if you guys want to have a visa program, I'll vacation somewhere else.
It would just be stupid policy.
I mean, these are neighboring nations now, which would presumably, as most neighboring nations should, have a strong trade relationship, a lot of travel between the two.
And if Canada wants to be so stupid as to shut us out, we'll travel south.
That's okay.
There's a whole big world out there.
Well, that's the thing, too.
It's like they, again, misunderstand the problem here.
The problem is they don't want to be Canadian anymore.
So you're threatening them with taking over.
Exactly.
They threaten me with a good time.
And as I said, when they say things like that, they only make my task easier.
And again, as well, I think it's a hollow threat.
It's not reasonable when we look at the circumstances where countries have already amicably split apart.
So Kenny knows that.
I mean, Wells, I don't know.
He's focused on weird things.
But Kenny is a smart man with a lot of constitutional and historical knowledge about him.
And he knows darn well that in a post-independence scenario, they're not going to be stripping citizenship away from people.
So it's a threat.
And I think the intent's to make people afraid to want to pursue independence.
But if anything, it's just entrenching people's will to do it more so.
He should know better.
Yeah, it's weird because he was the immigration minister.
So he knows this stuff.
And again, Chris Wells, he's a senator in a government that said that terrorists should be able to keep their Canadian citizenship.
They're the Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian kind of people, even if they are immigrants to Canada who commit terrorism on the homeland soil.
And yet for them, the real problem might be Albertans who want to do something else than stay in Confederation.
Yeah, the priorities are skewed.
I guess if they want to maintain citizenships for terrorists, that's fine.
We can deport our terrorists to Canada when the time comes.
They're more than welcome to them.
I mean, some of it, to be a little fair, and John Bolton, a broadcaster, brought that up quite well, was that there was a group that kind of put out, started talking a little almost like that sovereignty association thing.
For people from the 90s who might remember the Quebec referendum, they started to try and ride both sides of the razor there and say, well, we're going to be fully independent for the people they were speaking to when they wanted full independence.
But others there say, no, we'll have sovereignty association.
So we'll still have the currency and the citizenship and all the benefits, but we'll just have all that independence.
And in playing both sides, that's what led to the Clarity Act, actually, is because they were kind of disingenuous with what they were putting out there.
So one group was kind of putting out stuff that sounded similar to that 1995 thing.
And I noticed they pulled it off their website since.
But that's what Kenny latched onto and Wells and saying, look at these separatists.
They're claiming they're going to get all this stuff even after they leave.
And that's not the case.
And then, of course, they expanded on that into the citizenship and the CPP.
So some of it lands too on the decentralized nature of the independence movement, though, and inconsistent messaging.
They do have to get it clear because the opponents are going to pounce when they see opportunities like this.
And that's sort of what happened.
Right.
That is a problem right now, although it is early days.
Yeah.
But there has been no sort of messaging that's coalesced around one group.
And I know that some of the groups are talking about sort of coming together, but we haven't seen that sort of formalize quite yet.
And the other side of this debate is going to capitalize on that.
And the, I think, the lack of refined messaging coming out of some of these camps.
It's all blunt.
I mean, we can enjoy some of the unrefined folks out front.
We thrive on them.
But when we're talking about something that starts to get as nuanced and detailed as bringing a nation into independence from another, we do have to have some deeper discussions, some policy discussions, and consistency.
We can't have multiple figures standing up saying they represent a movement and proposing different things.
Though how we stop that, I don't know, because of course every group has a right to form and speak, but with no central voice representing that, it's going to be a challenge.
Let's see if somebody rises, I guess, out of it and starts to pull it together.
As you said, it is relatively easy.
It's easy, relatively early.
Nothing's easy.
The election was less than a month ago, which, you know, the system's broken.
Petitioning for Independence00:04:56
And this has been building for decades, but the election's what really brought it to a four.
And we've got a whole lot of new people to this movement coming together at this point.
I mean, it's only been a few weeks.
You know, give it a couple of months.
Let's see what we can put together.
I want to talk about some more of the stay crowd.
I hope some of the elbows up.
I hope they lead the stay messaging.
Jan Arden lost her marbles, went full wine ante.
And then there's Thomas Lukasic, former PC.
God, that feels like a million years ago.
PC MLA, who now is sort of fully captured by the NDP.
He is trying to organize a petition on the other side that Alberta shouldn't leave.
I wonder, I think I worry about his work ethic.
Let's just put it that way.
Yeah, well, Fabio, it's glad he took some time away from his hair and took on something different for a change.
But, you know, he's just trying to maintain relevance, really, and stand out.
It's, well, two things on that.
Yeah.
For one, it's an abuse of the referendum system that's been brought about.
It's trying to hold a referendum to maintain the status quo.
That's like holding a referendum to say, let's keep Wednesdays named Wednesdays.
We don't need a vote on that.
It's already Wednesday.
If you want to change it, you have a referendum to say we want to change it.
So it's just a pointless move.
I would assume and hope that the system says, no, it's not a valid question to be asked in a referendum.
If you want to stay, there's one ongoing, and then you vote against that.
That says, you know, rather than having dueling referendums going on or referenda.
The other part, though, which is interesting, is that a lot of people seem to think it's going to be easy to trigger these.
And I mean, if Lukasic on a whim wants to try and get one of these going, I say some people on both sides, supportive and against the initiative, don't understand just how hard it is to get 177,000 signatures.
In reality, you'll need 200,000 because a lot will be written outside the lines or illegible or the wrong address.
They'll get discounted.
And you have to get these in 120 days, which has been expanded.
Like it's doable, but it's very hard on paper with a name, address, phone number, and witnessed.
Like people look at online petitions.
Oh, I saw 10,000 get raised overnight.
Yeah, that's online.
A real petition is a heck of a lot of work.
So I do believe the independence movement's motivated enough to get that done.
But for people, which is basically a troll petition, for the probably six figures of work, you know, spending and work and thousands of volunteers that would be required to pull that off, I just doubt it'll come about.
So I think he's kind of trolling, but we'll see.
I mean, they have the right to petition all they like.
Yeah, I look forward to seeing Jason Kenney, Thomas Lukasic, Chris Wells, and Jan Arden working hand in hand on their little counter petition.
And I think based on what we've seen with some of these recounts, I hope everybody has learned that quite literally every vote counts.
You know, when we see ridings go to the liberals on one vote and other votes are tossed out, or as is the case in British Columbia, roughly 900 of them just not counted because they were lost for a time.
It's a lot of work.
And if you feel strongly about this, you have to get involved or at least make sure your voice is heard by casting that ballot.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, at the very least, casting your ballot.
And part of what has to be understood out of this movement, especially when you don't have a party system or a party that's kind of leading the charge on this, citizens have to get up.
They have to be the ones petitioning.
They have to be the ones signing the petitions.
They have to be the ones convincing their neighbors to sign these petitions and then vote positively when the time comes.
This is kind of unique, and we're new to it.
As I said, both sides of this seem to underestimate just how tough it's going to be to get that many signatures over the line.
And it's going to take everybody on a heck of a lot of work.
I do feel there's a better chance with the motivated people in the independence movement than the Jan Ardens and the Thomas Lukassocks, especially with that tirade out of Arden.
Like, wow, you really need a shows some of the people who are married to the system too.
Jan Arden is a CBC darling.
You know, she had a couple.
I'll give it credit, you know, decent songs kind of in the 90s, but really is just kind of in any real world would have really faded away and been playing the small-town bar circuit by now.
But when you've got CBC to kind of keep giving you specials, even though nobody's watching them, then you can make a pretty good living on being a has-been.
The Treaties Debate00:06:22
But, you know, and an independent movement threatens that.
But, well, that's a shame.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She should be relegated to the Canada Day Circuit along with Harlequin.
Yeah, and Trooper and some of the other chronics.
And I mean, Trooper had a bunch of hits, so she only had to share everything.
Yes, yes.
Now, I'm going to ask you a question that I asked you the first night of our town halls because I know it's coming up a fair bit, and that is on Indigenous rights in the referendum.
Because for some reason, the other side of the let's get out of here debate seems to believe that there is some sort of Indigenous veto over all of Alberta leaving.
And I disagree.
I know you disagree, but you probably explained it a little bit better than me.
But Indigenous people get one vote just like the rest of us.
And Indigenous rights, as the Premier has said, should and will be respected in any referendum question.
Absolutely.
And we're talking about the treaties.
It's something I say whenever I'm asked about this.
People get online and read one.
They're not that hard to find.
And they're not very big documents.
You don't have to commit half a day to read these.
They're a couple of pages.
And there's nothing in them, nothing that would preclude the ability to hold an independence referendum.
Most of them are defining the extents of the land, which, you know, that can be debated and argued about.
If there was a referendum saying that we were going to dissolve the reserves and the land that was set aside by treaties, then yes, we've got a problem and I would oppose that too, because that is infringing on what was agreed to.
But a referendum on the independence of Alberta is not at all a treaty infringement.
And Keith Wilson, the lawyer, he's been really good on that and talk about constitutional issues.
And he came on my show.
He talked about that.
We have already moved treaties basically from the care of one government to another government to another government.
They're transferable in that sense.
I mean, when it's signed with the crown, yes, initially it was Queen Victoria, but that moved on to the Dominion of Canada.
And now Cran Land has actually moved on to the province.
And the treaties still remain and the obligations still remain.
It's just that there's a different government now that's obligated to maintain those.
So nothing in independence is threatening those treaties.
It's just changing over what the form of the government is of the day.
But a lot of opponents like using that.
They see it as their Trump card.
This is it.
You know, oh, the Indigenous are against it, thus, we can't do it.
They've used that for pipelines.
They've used that for a number of things.
I've got to remind a lot of people: consultation is not consent.
And we got to get that myth done because people keep saying, well, you won't get their consent.
Well, you know what?
I don't care.
I think it's important that we consult.
They're citizens and it's vital.
And perhaps they should participate because if anybody's having a hard time in the Federation, it's First Nations.
They're in terrible shape right now.
And we should consent and consent, consult and speak with those citizens as much as possible.
But if in the end most of them say no, well, again, that's a shame.
You still have your treaties.
You still have your reserves, but we're moving along.
Right.
Yeah.
And I think Keith laid out the scenarios for Indigenous people.
They could actually, the reserves could stay within Canada and the rest of us leave.
But as you say, if there is a people being absolutely screwed by the feds, I would suggest it is the Indigenous people.
In their own words, by the way.
It's amazing those rented chiefs.
They're suddenly in love with colonialism.
Like, oh, please don't break the status quo.
Yet the month before they're screaming that they're being oppressed and pushed down and screwed.
It just always seems to depend on what side their bread's buttered on with a number of those.
I mean, there's some good chiefs out there too and some good leadership, but there's some pretty bad actors who kind of speak ostensibly on behalf of their citizens.
And I don't think that's who they're really serving.
Alan Adam.
I mean, and you're right.
There are things that have been transferred to different levels of government and things that different levels of government have just taken on because the feds are refusing to do their job.
For example, Indigenous health care is the purview of the feds, but Alberta is building drug treatment facilities on reserve because we're not about to let our Indigenous people die for lack of treatment because the feds won't do their jobs and build out drug treatment capacity.
Alberta is doing that.
Alberta has the Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, which builds partnerships with Indigenous communities and largely oil and gas.
That's something Indigenous affairs at the federal level is supposed to do.
They're not doing it.
They've decided that they're just leaving the Indigenous people behind.
So there's a lot of opportunity, I think, from the let's get out of here side to speak to Indigenous communities and say, like, hey, you couldn't be worse off.
Why don't you try something new?
Absolutely.
And the province is being proactive.
It's looking at things like partnerships or the Enoch Reserve with health care centers and things like that to move ahead with.
Whereas the Sixika Reserve, for example, and Trudeau literally gave them a check for $1.2 billion a few years ago.
You know, just getting it, it ties it up myself again, but I did that video tour of that reserve and showed that years later, the houses are still falling apart.
The squalor is unbelievable.
Nobody's asking the question, where did all that money go?
Because there's only a few thousand people there who just got $1.2 billion.
They should be doing pretty good.
And I got charged with trespassing for having dared to show that video, which, of course, I'm challenging through the courts now.
But the federal government answer of just no accountability and tossing money at the issue isn't helping anybody.
The citizens on the ground on these reserves, as I illustrated, nor the people who have to pay that bill.
So at least the province is working closer and trying to work directly with that to make better places for Albertan citizens on these reserves.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They shouldn't be left behind or just offered zero transparency because of ethnicity.
I would suggest that that is a racist system.
Systemic racism, as the left loves to say.
It's exactly what it is.
I mean, even the name of the Indian Act sort of tells you that.
Yeah.
Last Segment: Corey's Call to Action00:04:02
Corey, before I let you go, because I said that I would take up 20 minutes of your time and we're at 23 minutes.
I want to give you an opportunity to tell people how they can get their copy of the sovereigntist handbook.
I said I would sell 50 of these books.
I set that goal.
I made it to 45.
People at home, help me out.
Buy another five from Corey, please.
Certainly, if you could help Sheila relax and buy another five of those books, they're available on Amazon.
If you just go on there and search Sovereigntist's Handbook, or I believe even Corey Morgan, you'll find the book on there.
And As per usual, after going to Edmonton and not having enough for the books, I always keep a large ready supply.
So if I'm at any speaking events, I'll almost always have a bunch with me that I could sell on the spot.
I'll make sure I put a link in the show notes too so that people could just click through and buy.
And then I will feel a lot better about my personal goal that I set for myself.
Corey, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Thanks so much for your level head on the sovereigntist issue.
And ultimately, at the end of the day, this is a decision that will be decided by Albertans for Albertans.
And we're not going to let the people who have been the problem all these years tell us to sit down and shut up.
No, we have the right to vote and it doesn't get any more democratic than that.
All right.
The last portion of the show is really yours.
You become the guest in segment three, because without you, there's no Rebel News.
We'll never take a penny from, I was going to say Mark Carney, but now it's Justin Trudeau, as if there's any difference, to do the work that we do to hold all levels of government to account, including the governments we kind of like, like the one here in Alberta.
If we're not working hard to make sure that they stay conservative, we end up with Jason Kenney, right?
And we don't want that again, obviously.
So I open up the last segment of the show to you.
I want to hear from you.
If you've got viewer feedback about my interview with Corey, send it to me, Sheila at RebelNews.com.
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But it also might help convert your friends and family to Rebel News supporters too.
So these comments come from the YouTube clip of my interview last week with my friend, Michelle Sterling, from Friends of Science.
And let's get into it.
Ride on board says, great guest, get her on more.
Scratch that excellent guest.
All truth and no spin.
Canadians need to hear and understand what she says.
You know, it's just been a little bit since I had Michelle on, but normally she's about a once a month, once every two months guest.
It's just that the election campaign, the prorogation of parliament before that, it sucked up a lot of the oxygen and bandwidth for a lot of the things that I normally talk about, like the climate scare and stuff like that.
So I promise Michelle will be on more her time permitting, of course.
Bureaucracy Blocking Boom00:03:08
Samsung S23EB7FN says, it would be terrible if Alberta started getting its own oil.
I think you mean getting our own oil to market because we already have our own oil, the world's third largest proven oil and gas reserves.
just can't manage to get it to world markets because of the purposeful bureaucratic roadblocks thrown up by our friends in Confederation in Ottawa.
It would be like Abu Dhabi with safe streets, beautiful infrastructure, and everyone owning a Lamborghini.
Look, I think a lot of people just want to own a house.
Like the bar is pretty low.
And I think people just want to chart their own future.
I think for a lot of people, shedding the shackles of Ottawa would make Alberta instantly richer.
But it's not even about being rich, I don't think.
It's about being allowed to achieve and being allowed to capitalize on our opportunities.
And right now we have control from a culturally incompatible federal government telling us what we can and cannot do.
Alberta is not just a geographical location.
It's a way of thinking.
And it's also thinking that nobody else can tell us what to think either.
All right.
Jack Stand 6165 writes, Ireland just surpassed Canada in manufacturing output growth with one-eighth of the population.
Let that sink in.
A small island nation is outbuilding us, outpacing us, and attracting the world's top manufacturers while we regulate ourselves into stagnation.
Canada's manufacturing once built empires.
Now bureaucracy, taxes, and complacency.
I'll throw in something else, green regulations, which I suppose could be under taxes, but also bureaucracy also.
Meanwhile, Ireland lures global investment with low taxes, trains a skilled, export-focused workforce, embraces innovation in pharma, tech, and clean industry.
We have the land, the resources, the people, the legacy, but we're being passed by countries that want it more.
If we don't change course, Canada risks becoming little more than a raw resource colony.
If, I mean, to be a colony would be even better than what we are right now, because at least as Albertans, because colonies exist to have their resources extracted.
Even Better Colonies?00:00:40
We don't even do that.
Like, we don't even allow that.
While watching others add the value and reap the wealth, this isn't just economic.
It's existential.
Yeah, I believe it is.
I believe it is.
And so when you hear that, ask yourself why Albertans want to unchain themselves from the anchor of Canada.
Right.
I think a lot of you understand.
Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time, maybe in the same place next week.