David Menzies examines A Clockwork Orange’s 1962 dystopian themes—government "reprogramming" violent criminals, early releases like Omar Cotter’s $10.5M settlement, and the UK hiring rapists as police officers—mirroring Canada’s policies under Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney. Alberta’s separatist movement, fueled by a 2023 petition drive for a referendum, cites federal failures: $6B annual deficits from Liberal spending (e.g., $22B to Ukraine), mass immigration straining housing, and U.S. opposition to China’s influence over its oil reserves. With 6,000 rally RSVPs and American social media backing, critics question whether Carney’s leadership will stifle or accelerate Alberta’s push for independence amid Western alienation and unaddressed economic grievances. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, A Clockwork Orange seems to be less about speculative fiction these days and more about actual reality.
I'll explain why.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
This year marks the 55th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel of the same title, published in 1962.
A Clockwork Orange is a disturbing tale, but what is perhaps even more disturbing is that in 55 years since the film was originally released, certain elements of this sci-fi saga are shockingly becoming true.
Now, if you haven't read or seen A Clockwork Orange, I advise that you put it on your to-do list.
The film depicts a dystopian Britain of the near future.
The nation is overrun with young gangs carrying out violent criminal acts, but the desperate government of the day isn't cracking down on these criminals.
Rather, it's seemingly embracing a kinder, gentler approach to crime by attempting to reprogram the hooligans.
And when that doesn't work, well, the government sometimes goes out of its way to actually reward the hooligans.
Tell me, does this ring familiar in terms of contemporary Canadian politics, as well as our so-called criminal justice system?
You know how the worst of the worst are still granted bail, how sentences are laughably lenient, even for the most horrific crimes, how serial killers are moved to medium security facilities.
A hug-a-thug philosophy is now routinely embraced rather than any sort of deterrence.
It's downright baffling.
Meanwhile, the federal liberals pretend that the real war on crime means confiscating the firearms of law-abiding Canadian citizens, as though that will have any effect whatsoever other than virtue signaling.
Oh, and God forbid you actually defend yourself from a weaponized intruder invading your home in the wee hours of the morning.
You'll have the book thrown at you.
It's sick.
In any event, one of the methods employed for reprogramming the thugs depicted in a clockwork orange is an experimental psychiatric strategy called the Luvico technique, combining some mood-altering drugs with constant exposure to imagery depicting violence.
The theory is that the patient will be so sickened by the very idea of actually doing anything violent that he'll physically be unable to carry out criminal acts.
Check out this scene in which the film's protagonist, the incarcerated murderer Alex Delarge, undergoes the Ludvico treatment in exchange for shortening his prison sentence.
You needn't check it any further, sir!
You proved to be the lowest ultraviolence and killing is wrong!
Wrong and terribly wrong!
I've learned the lesson, sir!
I see now what I've never seen before!
I'm cured!
Praise God!
You're not cured yet, boy!
But, sirs, missus, I see that it's wrong.
It's wrong because it's like against society.
It's wrong because everybody has the right to never be happy without being tom-chop tonight.
No, no, boy.
You really must leave it to us.
And be cheerful about it.
In less than a fortnight now, you will be a free man.
You know, I think former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a fan of the fictional Ludovico technique.
Trudeau seemed to be very supportive of a low-rent, real-life version of this fictional psychiatric method.
I hearken back to 2017 when Blackface deemed that it was improper to incarcerate returning ISIS fighters to Canada.
After all, that might be considered not very culturally sensitive in some circles.
And hey, what the heck?
Boys will be boys, you know, even if those lads subscribe to bombings and beheadings, sexual slavery, setting infidels ablaze and throwing gays from rooftops so they can call upon distant supporters to carry out acts of global terrorism.
But never mind, let's forgive and forget, shall we?
Besides, those chaps might vote liberal in future elections.
And let's never forget this Trudeau soundbite for the ages.
This is not the standards we expect.
Immigrants, Canadians, all of us who are here expect that we would have a minimum bar that people would not, people come here would not be guilty of trying to plan terrorist attacks against this country.
A Canadian Canadian is a Canadian, and you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.
The end of the rule of law in this country, and you can't take away citizenship.
Individuals like someone die.
Individual rights to do that.
Yes, a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, even if that Canadian is hell-bent on a mission to destroy Canada.
So instead of the stick, Trudeau employed the carrot, hoping to reprogram these aspiring terrorists.
That's right, embracing liberal huggathug strategies.
Justin sought to transform homegrown Sharia soldiers into model Canadian citizens.
Since the Ludovico treatment does not actually exist, part of the way in which authorities reprogrammed these wannabe Islamist terrorists was to have them take part in poetry classes?
Oh, yes, I do not jest, folks.
And really, can you imagine?
I mean, poetry classes for Islamist terrorists?
What would that look like?
Maybe something like this?
Well, Miss Muffet sat on a tougher.
Eating a Kurds and Wayne.
Long came a spidey sat down beside his bulb, bitch.
You know, you gotta wonder, did the reprogramming of these jihadis also involve drag queen story time?
And if not, why not?
Well, actually, I think we know the answer to that, don't we?
Back to the film in a subtle scene.
The government's rationale for backing the Ludovico treatment is indeed revealed.
Check out this clip in which the Minister of the Interior has a conversation with a prison warden as they tour the jail yard for potential human guinea pigs.
How many to a cell?
Four, just block, sir.
Cram criminals together and what do you get?
Concentrated criminality.
Crime in the midst of punishment.
I agree, sir.
What we need are larger prisons, more than it.
Not a chance, my dear fellow.
The government can't be concerned any longer without mowing penological careers.
Soon we may be needing all our prison space for political offenders.
Common criminals like these are best dealt with on a purely curative basis.
Kill that criminal reflex, that's all.
Did you catch that line from the Minister of the Interior?
Quote, soon we may be needing all our prison space for political offenders, end quote.
Indeed, is this the real reason why violent monsters are being sprung from Canadian jails so that there's enough space for political prisoners?
Do you really think that's so far-fetched?
If so, I urge you to solicit the opinion of Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Leach.
What's more, with a plethora of censorship bills afoot, it's only a matter of time when these bills are enacted into law, thereby creating a new criminal class.
Oh, yeah, sure, the only crime these so-called criminals will be committing will be wrong thought, yet for a card-carrying liberal these days, wrong thought might be the most heinous offense of all.
Again, going back to the film, the Ludovico treatment is only one element of the future UK government's crackdown on crime.
Seemingly embracing the old adage of, if you can't beat them, join them.
The government goes on to embrace a bizarre job creation scheme in which convicted criminals are hired as police officers.
Indeed, later in the film, the chemically castrated Alex learns about this the hard way when he has the misfortune of meeting up with a couple of his former colleagues who now don the uniforms of law enforcement.
Where's your troubles, huh?
Oh, no!
Well, Alex.
Long time, no video druke.
How it goes!
It's impossible!
I don't believe it!
Evidence of the old glasses.
Nothing up our sleeve.
No magic, little Alex.
A job for two who are now of job age.
The police.
Alas, what follows next is Alex enduring a severe beating at the hands of these two constables, proving that you can put a thug in a uniform, but what remains is still, well, a garden variety thug.
And I make mention of this scene because of an incredible news story that broke earlier this month.
Check out this story by Sky News headlined, Dereliction of Duty, Met Police Relaxed Vetting to Meet Recruitment Targets.
Incredibly, it was revealed that the Metropolitan Police in London had hired more than 130 officers who were actually convicted criminals.
This included David Garrick and Cliff Mitchell, both of whom are serial rapists.
Mitchell, 26, was given a life sentence for attacks on two victims over nine years and was initially rejected from the police force because of a previous allegation of child rape.
But Sky News notes that a vetting panel wanted to reduce so-called disproportionality towards ethnic minority groups.
So the panel overturned the decision and Mitchell was indeed allowed to join the force in August 2020.
As for Garrick, he is described as one of the UK's worst ever sex offenders.
He joined the Met in 2001, but a re-vetting error in 2017 meant he was allowed to work as an armed police officer until he was arrested in 2021.
He's now serving 37 life sentences.
Even so, somehow the likes of Mitchell and Garrick and more than 100 others were deemed to be the right stuff.
They got to wear police uniforms and carry guns, much like Alex's former partners in crime, Georgie and Dim.
Isn't DEI fantastic?
I flag this example because it increasingly seems like Canada is only about five years behind the UK when it comes to whackadoodle liberal policies meant to jettison democratic principles.
Spoiler alert, things don't go according to plan for the government in A Clockwork Orange.
Indeed, in the end, the film hints that Alex will soon be reverting back to his thuggish ways.
Even so, in the final scene, Alex is literally being spoon-fed in a hospital bed by the Minister of the Interior.
The minister also lavishes gifts upon Alex and offers him a well-paying public sector job.
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I don't know, kind of like convicted murderer Omar Cotter being given a $10.5 million check due to this homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist experiencing hurt feelings.
So from reprogramming wannabe jihadists via poetry classes to hiring convicted criminals to serve as police officers to emptying out jails to make room for political prisoners.
It would appear that the world that was depicted in A Clockwork Orange has shockingly morphed from speculative fiction to entrenched reality.
I wonder if author Anthony Burgess and director Stanley Kubrick are rolling in their graves right now.
Well folks, a ton of response to my commentary about the curious case of Stephanie Redlich.
She is the woman in North Toronto who allegedly runs a horse rescue operation.
The funny thing is, horses that fall into her stewardship need to be rescued, otherwise they get sick and often die.
It was shocking.
In any event, let's get to some of the comments.
Fran G says, deport her and her family and the problems for them poor horses.
Shame on them.
But being a psychopath, she has no soul.
Well, I don't think you can deport Stephanie Redlick and her family members.
I believe they are Canadian citizens.
But when it comes to being a psychopath, I truly believe in her case, there is an element of mental illness here in terms of what she does to these horses.
And hopefully she'll get help for that.
Moving on, Peter Renschall comments, what is remarkable is Stephanie Redlick's glibness in her responses to David Menzies' questions, even in the face of the most incriminating facts he confronted her with.
Also notable is her persecution complex and repeated blame shifting.
It has been noted by some authors that these are classic traits among sociopaths.
Well, I think you're absolutely correct, Peter.
What was disturbing too was when I asked her about why everyone is ganging up on her, her words, animal welfare services, various police services, the equine community.
Basically, she said they were jealous of her success.
Well, there is no success.
And it's a preposterous argument to make based on the documented evidence, based on the photographic evidence.
Stephanie Redlick is a horse's worst friend.
And Paul Schofield comments, about halfway through her very slick rap, I got the feeling that she doth dissemble too much, trying to prove Mr. Lincoln wrong in his assessment about fooling all the people all of the time, I suppose.
Well, the thing is, no matter what, it is never, ever her fault.
Sorry, Stephanie, nobody, especially you, is perfect.
And finally, Bruce Acheson comments, I wouldn't trust Stephanie to look after a pet rock.
I remember those.
If she was a genuine caretaker of horses, why are there so many angry people?
People are bound to disagree, but so many people, that makes me wonder, let's hope this woman is found guilty of any of these crimes and put away for a long time.
And you know something, Bruce?
What the real tragedy is, is how the system is broken.
Even with all this preponderance of evidence, even though Stephanie Redlick's reputation is trash, she can still today go out and buy a horse.
Fighting for Alberta's Independence00:15:23
No muss, no fuss.
That has to be changed.
And that's on the animal welfare services people.
Make sure animal abusers don't get to care for animals in the first place.
Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's edition of the Ezra Levent Show.
Ezra, as you may know, is in Israel on a very important mission.
There will be another guest host in this space tomorrow night.
In the meantime, stay safe and stay sane.
It's not just on the outskirts anymore.
Alberta's independence is at the forefront here in Canada, particularly this year.
A referendum is expected to take place later this year in the fall.
And for the time being, groups like the Alberta Prosperity Project are going around collecting signatures from Albertans who say that they will vote for independence in this referendum.
There are hundreds of thousands of signatures being collected and sought during this process and at events like this here in Calgary.
Now, throughout the day from 11 a.m. going on until probably 11 p.m. tonight, people have constantly been coming in to sign that they want to leave Canada, leaving Canada's Confederation specifically.
So we got in there, we talked to some of them and the organizer Jeffrey Rath of this event to find out a little bit more about what exactly is happening here in Alberta.
Is it time for Alberta to leave Canada?
What are you doing here?
Well, I'm here because I love Alberta.
And of course, I don't want to see us become any more further into a problem that Canada is already in.
Because if you look at the past 10 years of Trudeau and now Carney, we're going downhill.
Okay.
And though I'm pretty young and all that, I can see like, you know, since 2020, you know, like we've been so stabbed in the back and not just like Alberta, but all of Canada.
Seriously.
So I think best thing we can do is get together and talk separation.
Seriously.
To get away from Ottawa and keep the money and everything here and become the wealthy country that we should have been.
Yeah, well, we've been kind of done wrong by the Canadian government with these ridiculous equalization policies and I feel like Alberta's been losing out on a lot of money.
We've been ripped off so many times by, I don't know, it's time that we stood up for ourselves.
We need more freedom in this country.
Everything is coming down to ultimately, you know, censorship and our economy has plummeted and we really do, you know, need a bit of an independence.
We need to use resources that are in the ground.
I'm fed up with Ottawa.
I'm fed up with Confederation.
I'm a pro-separatist and I want to show support.
I mean, I've already, I've been to a dozen of these events.
I've already signed a petition, but I still want it to come out.
I mean, this is an event.
This is a huge event and you don't want to miss out.
Don't tread on me.
A lot of students right now work really, really hard up to 40 to 60 hours a week just so they can pay the bills, so they can get tuition, so they can actually make a living.
You know what happens?
The government comes and they take every penny out of their pockets while they're already struggling.
I know many students that live paycheck to paycheck where even if taxes go up even by 1%, they can't continue their education.
They'll be kicked out of their program.
So students want to be left alone.
They're willing to put in the work.
They're not lazy.
I know a lot of people say a lot of bad things about young people saying that we're lazy, but we're not.
We're here to put in the work.
We just want to work.
Let us.
We don't want the government to come in here and stop us anymore.
Why are we left alone?
I'm here as press.
I'm also here supporting the movement.
It's time to get Alberta back to what Alberta used to be.
You know, where you could come here, get a job, have a family, have a safe place to stay.
That's been ripped underneath our feet.
So enough is enough.
It's time to step up.
This is one of the ways that we're doing it.
We're organizing.
We're getting the word out there.
And hopefully this goes through because enough is enough.
We give you billions of dollars to foreign aid and nothing comes back to Albertans.
You know, one in six Albertans right now are having food insecurities.
We can't have that.
You know, from a place that produces billions of dollars of revenue and we have food insecurities and we are in debt.
Sorry, that's not happening.
We're part of this growing movement and we're excited to see the progress that the independence referendum has gained so far.
It's been a long journey getting to this moment and we're very proud to be part of that action and to you supporting the Alberta independence movement.
I'm here to sign the referendum like anyone else to stand for Alberta's future, for my kids' future and for the future of this province.
And I do believe if you cannot change it and break it, Canada is not going to change for better in time to break that relation with that liberal government.
It's not Carney's issue.
It's not through the issue.
It's the system they have, the issue.
And regardless, we change the name.
The system is still there to bully us, to destroy us.
And as an immigrant who came 25 years ago, I could see the dramatic change from bad to worse on a daily basis.
If you would tell me 25 years ago to sign the referendum, I'll tell you what the heck are you talking about.
But now I do believe we need to sign all of us because the pain we are facing, the challenge we are facing, especially young men and women, we need to do something to protect their future.
Firstly, could you introduce yourself?
Yeah, Jeffrey Rath.
I'm with StayFreeAlberta.com.
And what is this event behind us?
What this event behind us is a celebration of our signing event that we had today or that's going on downstairs.
We have 150 canvassers in the bottom of the big four building today, running tens of thousands of Calgarians through the petition signing process and getting petitions signed.
They're coming to sign an official petition with official elections Alberta canvassers that says that we're going to have a referendum asking the question, do you agree that the province of Alberta shall cease to be part of Canada to become an independent state?
We're really excited about how it's going.
I was laughing today because of course, you know, all the success that we've had with our petition signing campaign so far across the province and literally miles of Albertans lined up into the cold January night.
Poor little Tommy Lukasic today had to admit defeat.
He was literally throwing the towel in it the first quarter and acknowledging that a separation referendum is inevitable.
So yeah, so we're working forward with that.
We obviously feel the same way.
I mean to get to 178,000 signatures we need 11,000 signatures a week.
We're crushing that.
But our goal, you know, our goal is to get well over a million signatures.
Our feeling is if we can get 1.8 million people to sign, which were the number of people who participated in the last provincial election, I don't even think we'll need a referendum, right?
I mean, that'll be all the mandate the government of Alberta will need to move directly to a declaration of independence.
So we're working forward as hard as we can to get there.
If we don't, I always tell my daughter, it's like aim for the stars.
And if you only get to the moon, you'll still accomplish more than 99.9% of the people in the world.
And we're confident we're going to get the signatures we need.
We're confident that we're going to get to a referendum this year.
And we're confident that we're going to vote Alberta the hell out of Canada.
What is your plan to address Western alienation?
Well, a couple of things.
As you know, born in Northwest Territories, grew up in Alberta.
I resolved to know one in terms of my understanding of the West, my connection to the West.
And I'm part of a government that governs for all of the country and very much for the West.
I think such dramatic comments are unhelpful at a time when Canadians are coming together.
How much of your grievance is directed at the Federal Liberal Party of Canada?
All of it.
Quite a bit.
Quite a bit.
Over 80%.
Almost all of it.
Yeah.
It's 10 years of disappointment.
How much we pay and how much they don't care about us at all, not just Albertans, but just all of us who have this moral value to, you know, hey, like we just want to continue on living our lives and kind of thing and keep the peace.
But, you know, that's not how they want to go.
Mark Carney is responsible for a majority of the issues that we are facing, whether it be high taxation, mass immigration, high housing prices, high grocery costs.
I've gone and tried to talk to him about supply management, the issues that rural Albans are facing.
We want to sell our milk.
We can't do that.
We get told that we have to throw it all away.
At the end of the day, there are some issues that are obviously municipal and provincial, but a lot of them, I will say, comes from the issues of our Liberal Party from both Mark Carney and the previous Prime Minister, Protestant Trudeau.
Trudeau, f ⁇ Carney, man.
Yeah, well, Carney, he was supposed to change the Liberal Party.
Did he not change it?
F ⁇ that shit.
No, they're doing a good job of helping Alberta want to become its own independent state.
Like it's destroying Canada.
Well, but didn't Mark Carney bring change to the Liberal Party and they got this MOU for Alberta?
Doesn't this make you happy?
No, it does not, because it's all just paperwork.
There's nothing that's going to go through.
And Carney, with his belief system, he doesn't believe in pipelines.
He has no problem making money off pipelines from all over the world from his investments, but he doesn't want Alberta to be to prosper in any way.
Bad management from Trudeau, bad management from Kearney.
I believe there's going to be a snap election pretty soon here in the spring.
Something has to be done.
Mark Carney is not living up to what he said he was going to do.
And it's starting to show.
Take a look at 10 cities all throughout every single major city and province.
This is not Canada.
Our amputations have skyrocketed in our country.
Amputations, not from like, you know, being sick, from frostbite.
And good people working two full-time jobs, right, more than 40 hours a week and sleeping in their car.
So this is one of the ways for us to step up and, you know, say, hey, federal government, enough is enough.
It's time for you guys to either start cutting taxes or figuring something out because, you know, there's too many good people that are not getting ahead.
And this brain drain needs to stop.
I don't think Carney would survive the next confidence vote in the House of Commons.
He has been the de facto prime minister for a year and he's done nothing.
Like he campaigned, he campaigned on having Trump as a boogeyman.
That's getting wearing on people and then he said he was going to get us a better deal.
Now he's getting us in bed with the Chinese, which I don't think anybody wants that.
In fact, he specifically said during the campaign last year that he considered China to be our biggest threat.
Now he's in bed with them.
That's insanity.
I've seen the inequalities and how poorly Alberta is treated.
And it's all because of Ottawa.
It's all because of the people out east who vote.
They have a huge block and then they pass policies that they approve of without consideration for us.
Like the gun grab is a perfect example.
Like it's we're helpless to we're helpless to affect policy.
This Liberal government failed us at every level.
Even the Conservative Party of Canada when they take lead.
I love Stephen Harper.
He was the best prime minister, I believe.
But in 2015, what did he do for us?
Literally nothing.
As Alberta was getting bullied, free ride for everyone.
Liberal consider us opposition.
They don't give a damn about us.
Conservative, they know we're in their back pocket, so they don't give a damn about us.
Both of them, they want to please Eastern Canadian.
For anyone who have hesitation not to sign the referendum, let's sign as a leverage tools like Quebec.
Every time Quebec wants something from Ottawa, they say we need to separate.
Here you go.
Take whatever you want.
If we do the same, we have the leverage tools.
And I'll tell you one thing.
This country is going down.
Carney said yesterday, it's a true statement, but he didn't say the proper fact.
Yes, Canada thrived because we're Canadian, but we're not Canadian anymore.
You have over five million people now.
Their refugee claim been rejected.
They're still mooring around the country all over the place with no control, no one telling them where to do what to do.
And we are paying for their health care, for their work as a taxpayer.
Something needs to be done about it.
Myself, I'm an immigrant and I'm pro-immigrant, a pro-controlled immigrant.
But this refugee banner needs to be stopped and we need to do something about it.
Liberal government is the government of everyone other than Canadian people, especially Alberta.
As an Alberta MP candidate, how will you better our province's relationship with Ottawa?
Look, I don't know if it's necessarily bettering the relationship with Ottawa.
I think it's standing up and fighting for Alberta.
Ottawa's been telling Alberta to pay up and shut up for the last 10 years.
And we need someone who will stand up and fight back against that attitude.
And that's what I'm going to do.
We need the West needs to have fair treatment in Confederation.
That means giving our farmers fair treatment.
In this trade war, for example, Mr. Carney said nothing and did nothing for the canola farmers until I spoke up about it.
You know, yesterday I went out and said, look, it's been days now since the Chinese have announced this new tariff on canola farmers.
The prime minister had said nothing, even though he'd managed to put out a tweet on International Cat Day.
And what do you know?
Later that afternoon, he said, okay, okay, I'm going to do something on canola.
Well, that shows that having a strong national leader amplifying the concerns of local residents in Battle River Crowfoot will be a major advantage.
So you can count on me to use my megaphone as leader to fight for oil and gas workers in hardesty, in Camrose, Consort, Coronation, Castor, and beyond.
You can count on me to fight for the prison guards here in Drumheller, who are facing death every day from the chaos in the prisons that Liberals have unleashed.
You can count on me to fight for the farmers.
So having a Pierre Pollyev fight for this region in Canada's parliament as leader of the party will be an enormous advantage for the people.
The Federal Conservative Party of Canada is going to be having their event at the same Stampede venue at the end of the week.
Don't get me started on that.
Well, is there not a hope that they can turn this ship around?
No, no, no, no.
We're beyond that.
I mean, they, you know, it's 150 year, it's 158-year-old experiment that has failed.
We have had numerous, numerous, numerous attempts.
If the Conservatives were to elect somebody like Pierre, it might slow down, delay the inevitable, but that's all it's going to do.
This is inevitable.
The country does not work the way it's designed.
I don't believe any government in Ottawa has the courage to tackle the fundamental problems with Confederation, whether it's the Federal Conservative Party or the Federal Liberal Party.
Both parties rely on the vast majority of their votes from both Ontario and Quebec.
And so I'm not sure that either party, and we've seen this historically, neither party is willing to tackle equalization.
Neither party is willing to tackle the disparity in representation.
So we are in a fight of, frankly, taxation without representation in the Senate and in Parliament.
United States Influence on World Order00:13:38
I've become a little bit jaded.
I don't think any party would help us at this point in time.
You can't change the way things are set up now.
It doesn't matter if it's Conservatives or Liberals are in power.
Well, Stephen Harper can make anything happen.
Pierre won't.
We have to kowtow to the people down east to get the votes.
They know they got our votes already.
And I heard that Fall of Air is changing his, what's the word?
He's wherever he got elected here.
He's moving it down east now.
He wants to get away from us.
I am a Conservative, so I would hope that they would get in, but I'm not sure.
So I think that we have to vote for independence, right, to save Canada, really.
They've done so much.
And if you look at Danielle Smith, honestly, she's done so much good for this province.
She's made it illegal for, of course, children to have puberty blockers, which I'm a big fan of.
And of course, she's spoken against a lot of things that a lot of other provinces have not and that our federal government has refused to.
Instead, they just like to put on this facade and think, oh, I'm doing the best I can, you know.
But no, you know, so I think the Conservatives can definitely do a lot better than they are.
Is there even the opportunity of them coming into power still?
I mean, to what extent does democracy still exist in Canada?
That's also a question, right?
I feel like if it was to happen, that Conservatives did come into power.
I mean, maybe Alberta can receive more, I guess, support from the federal government.
I mean, we're hated upon in Ottawa.
The Conservative Party of Canada, which is going to be having an event at the end of this week in the building behind us.
That's right.
So you're talking about a snap election that might be coming this year, presumably before a referendum.
Is this the last chance the Conservatives have to snatch it from the Liberal Party of Canada?
You know what?
I think it's already been done.
I don't think it's the last chance.
I think it's done.
I think people, I mean, if you take a look what happened with Pierre Polyev with the longest ballot committee, right?
You take a look at the games that they played in this last election.
I think people are going to vote even more this time.
I mean, the guy got 2 million votes, right?
And I've been talking to delegates, folks like my good friend Kevin Dick, talking to good people that are going to be at that convention, and they are fired behind Pierre Polyev.
They're ready to go.
And Pierre is my man.
I support that guy 110%.
I have his back, and I'm always there for him.
So I support the UCP and also Premier Smith.
Absolutely not.
Many people don't know this, but they're actually hosting their own rally right now to try to shift people away from this event.
Right now, as we speak, Daniel Smith, Jamil Javani, and five Conservative MPs are at the University of Calgary right now trying to shift people away from this event to their event.
It was actually supposed to happen on the 28th, but they switched it just because of this event happening today.
So the elite, the people that are from Ottawa that are here to try to take away our rights, our money, our land, they're not here for us.
They don't represent me.
There's Conservative members that would love to see part of our movement.
I mean, many of our members are.
I'm a libertarian.
They say that they're libertarians.
At the end of the day, they will join us as they see as we are bigger.
We represent the people, and this is ultimately what we want for Alberta.
And in one hand, we have the Federal Liberal Party of Canada here, and they've made a recent deal with China.
Carney's going down this new world order path.
Mine is the first visit of a Canadian prime minister to China in nearly a decade.
The world has changed much since that last visit.
And I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new world order.
But on the other hand, we have President Donald Trump in the United States seemingly inviting of the notion of Alberta separating and leaving Canada to become its own state.
Alberta is a wealth of natural resources, but they won't let them build a pipeline to the Pacific.
I think we should let them come down into the U.S.
And Alberta is a natural partner for the U.S.
They have great resources.
The Albertans are very independent people.
Rumors that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.
Sounds like you may know something up there.
Look, people are saying, people are talking.
People want sovereignty.
They want what the U.S. has got.
Where does the United States fit into this equation?
Well, I mean, we've had, we've been to Washington, D.C. three times now.
Every time we've been, we've been told by U.S. officials that we're meeting with that the United States is enthusiastically in support of Alberta independence.
And the reason is simple.
I mean, if you read the U.S. National Security Strategy and you read, you know, you understand where they're coming from, they don't want the third largest oil field in the world controlled by the communist Chinese.
We know that Kearney's government is infiltrated with Chinese agents.
It almost looks like Kearney's a Chinese agent.
New World Order.
I'm just surprised that he didn't flash his little Illuminati symbol like he always does while he was saying New World Order in China, right?
So, you know, that's what we're voting to get away from.
We don't want to be China.
You know, we don't want to be controlled by the Chinese communists.
We have friends, family, business partners in the United States of America.
We're very comfortable with our relationship with the United States.
United States.
We want to improve that relationship.
We don't want to be governed by a moron that literally threatens war with the United States when he comes back to visit Canada, you know, after his, you know, after returning to China to get orders from his Chinese communist masters in Beijing, you know, etc., etc.
So, you know, we're moving forward and, you know, we're really, really happy with how it's going.
I respect the United States, our big brothers.
Over 70% of our trademark goes between us and the United States.
How far could we go without the United States?
I can guarantee you no far.
We have no rad system.
F-18, F-15, F-35 coming this year to Cold Lake, Alberta, because of United States.
Who's closer to us?
Your neighbor better than your brother.
And our neighbor is United States.
I believe Carney is failing and they have a bigger agenda.
They are following.
They're not putting the interest of Canadians, especially Alberta in the first place.
They did fail in the past and they will fail again and again.
Something needs to be done.
And again, I'll tell you one thing.
I don't believe Americans are pushing us to sign the referendum.
I didn't get any phone calls from anyone to go and sign.
I'm doing it because I see the bullying.
I see the system failure.
Like for 25 years, every Canadian newborn kid has $18,000 deficit in his name just the second he was born.
Why?
Because the Liberal government sent him billion and billion of dollars all over the universe.
The last one thing I need to talk, $22 billion to Ukraine while you and I are struggling.
We have veterans off the street not having a place to live in.
Something needs to be done about this.
You know what?
I believe our best ally as American, United States, and we need to stay in good relation with them.
Carney is stupid to make that statement and to poke the bear because I'll tell you one thing, he won't live too far and he won't live too long because you cannot live without United States.
This is a reality.
35 million people cannot overcome 300 million people and this is something we need to pay attention to.
I don't think the United States has much influence on the movement.
I think the actions of the Ottawa government under the Mark Carney government and the WEF have a lot of influence though because when you look at the alliances that Ottawa is trying to make cozying up to China, I think if Albertans have a choice between our number one trading partner in the United States and a relationship with China, I can tell you where the vast majority of Albertans are going to side with.
We share a lot more in common with our friends and relatives in Montana and Idaho than we do in Ontario and Quebec.
It's one of Canada's biggest partners.
So like about 75% of Canada's trade gets done with the U.S.
And then if you break that down, a really big chunk of that is Alberta-based.
I mean, you know, the oil that we send, the minerals, lumber, stuff like that.
So we currently have a huge trade with the U.S. and, you know, that's all it is.
I mean, people that say the Americans are interfering, no, they're not interfering.
They know that we're a reliable partner and they're watching closely.
The Liberal government is doing a failed job at actually partnering up with China.
And I think that is why we're going so much further down this sh ⁇ .
Forgive my language.
Now, look, we just got 100% tariffs, like, you know, and that's a clear sign that it's time for us to separate because we don't want to be going down that rapid hole.
Ultimately, if we were to gain independence, we would have an opportunity to, you know, potentially enter the states.
And what that does is really makes us one and a half times richer overnight.
And he wants to get into our oil and use our resources, continue and continue to, you know, create prosperity for Albertans.
That's the ultimate goal.
I'm not sure why anyone would be against that.
What's happening isn't good with the tariffs, but at the same time, I don't think that us being within Canada or Alberta want to be controlled by China or Russia or anywhere like that.
The U.S. has been our allies for many years, and so like they're the ones that are going to protect us if anything happens.
So I don't know.
I think that they play an important part, but at the same time, like with what's happening with the Liberals, it's just horrific.
As Pierre was pointing out, it's crazy to see how Carney is kind of giving Donald Trump these pressure points.
I mean, he's genuinely causing these issues as well.
And I think when we're right beside an economic giant such as U.S. that is causing a lot of turmoil and it's not in the best interest to continue on kind of biting at them.
And then, you know, especially when Carney has most of his funds in U.S. U.S. companies and his portfolio consists of mostly U.S. stocks, right?
The U.S. told Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau, Denmark Carney, get your borders in check because people are coming here to Canada, not finding a career opportunity.
So they're leaving.
They're going, they're getting caught on deer cams in the other side of the border.
Get your borders in check.
Stop the fentanyl, right?
We're not building a small amount of fentanyl.
We have major super lavs throughout every single part of our country.
Those need to be stopped, right?
The U.S. has had enough.
They've lost 300,000 people.
They are pointing fingers, obviously, at Mexico and at Canada.
He hasn't done it.
He hasn't stepped up and done it.
I don't think he has the budget.
And Premier Smith has stepped up.
She got strong on the borders.
Same with Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan even stepped up and got strong on the borders.
But for Mr. Carney, I don't think he understands it.
And at the end of the day, that's more money than our farming, our mill industry.
Those folks don't pay carbon tax.
They don't pay any CPP.
It's pure liquid cash going into our housing industry, which is a fact, by the way.
But like, that's just it, right?
We're going to do the right thing and let our voices be heard and use the power of the pen.
Alberta has gotten a lot of support from the United States.
I've seen a lot of American influencers talk on both Twitter, I'm on Instagram.
I've seen a lot of them post on Instagram, boosting some of our people to make sure that we're actually well known, that we're not just, you know, smaller, smaller groups, that we can reach a larger audience.
A lot of the left-leaning people in Canada would say, oh, this is more of a fringe movement.
There aren't that many of you.
What do you say to that?
Is it truly a small voice?
As you said, getting a larger audience doesn't necessarily mean a larger support base that's actually going to vote for independence.
Well, I'll say two things.
Number one, take a look around.
Look at all the people that showed up today.
I was at the Queensland event as well, too.
Almost 2,000 people just showed up to an event that no one marketed for.
People want independence.
And I represent UFC for the independence movement.
I'm trying to get as many people as we can to come out to this event and to support independence.
And right now, we have over 1,200 members just on the UFC campus alone that support independence.
I don't consider that a small number.
For a youth group, that's massive.
And we're only going to get bigger as the movement keeps getting bigger and the campaign keeps going farther.
We've had over 6,000 RSVPs for this event tonight.
So that's why we moved into the big four building from the BMO Center because we'd already outgrown the hall that we were supposed to be in at the BMO Center.
It's now 20 minutes after six and the hall is already half full.
So we're confident that we're going to be full tonight.
We're going to have 6,000 enthusiastic Albertans, enthusiastic Calgarians out in support of Alberta independence.
And we're thrilled about it.
Les or do you?
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It seems to be the case that despite the Federal Liberal Party of Canada advocating for a unified country, the proof is in the pudding.
Now that Prime Minister Mark Carney has been leading the reins for the last few months, again, under this Liberal banner, we still see it hasn't gone down.
The sentiment in Alberta for independence has only gone up.
Time will tell.
We'll see what happens.
Let me know in the comments: do you think Alberta is finally going to separate from Canada's Confederation?