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Speaking of Texas, Canada's Texas just had the referendum vote and the U .S.-backed separatists failed by an actual bonkers margin.
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That's not surprising to me.
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The Alberta separatist movement is and always has been a Russian -American PSYOP designed to stoke division within Canada.
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It's not been a real thing.
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With more than 1 .5 million votes counted, 76 % supported remaining in Canada, with close to 24 % back to beginning a process towards separate.
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That's still a decent amount, man.
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That's still a decent amount, but yeah, it wasn't going to, it was never going to pass.
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Alberta, Alberta.
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Eric Bay standing by with separatist leader, uh, Jeffrey Roth.
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Me when I haven't been crying in the bathroom before my media appearance.
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Yeah.
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Thanks.
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I think like, actually though, look at how fucking shiny his eyelids are.
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Carolina Dallas.
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We'll get right to it here.
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Jeffrey Roth standing by with us.
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Now we are just starting to get some of the results
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and finally tonight what we're hearing is about 76 .4 oh wait never mind he's not
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that's just the reporter i'm just i'm just
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i'm i'm fishing in a bathroom sink right
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now then on the remain side what are you making of these early results well
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we don't know what to make of the early results i mean is this the mail -in ballot vote
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that they counted wow they really are an american psyop huh first we don't know i mean you know
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so as far as it goes we know at the end of the night there's going to be over six
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or seven hundred thousand
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say that again albertans
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that have voted um you know for uh alberta to become
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you know to have a vote for alberta to become an independent country um
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you know we're absolutely absolutely no freaking way did the did
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the alberta separatist movements leader just dropped the hottest me the most fire meme of the 2026 election season.
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I'm sorry.
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With the work that we've done and the fact that we've created a political movement that's going to go forward from here.
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And of course, tomorrow, I think the big lesson
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or the big takeaway is
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that Alberta will never be independent as long as we have a Federalist leading the United Conservative Party of Alberta.
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And moving forward from here, all of our hundreds of thousands of members
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and volunteers are going to be committed to taking back ownership of the United Conservative Party of Alberta
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and moving forward into the future.
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Is that a direct attack on...
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This is so embarrassing, man.
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At least the Texas GOP doesn't actually waste the National Republican Party's time with separatist bullshit.
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You know what I mean?
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They don't actually...
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It's not a real goal.
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...Daniel Smith and her leadership?
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Well, it's not an attack.
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It's a statement of fact.
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I mean, And the simple fact of the matter is, and I've been saying it for months,
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that Alberta will never be independent as long as Danielle Smith is leading the United Conservative Party of Alberta.
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She's an avowed federalist.
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She's basically holding hands with Mark Carney.
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He came into Alberta...
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Avowed federalist, man.
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What century are we in?
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We can publicly humiliate her, actually, saying vote no to the nine.
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We still don't know what the votes are going to be on her other questions.
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So to the extent that, you know, Mark Carney, you know, damaged her, you know, her, you know, wishes to have for greater.
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To be fair, the U .S already owns Alberta economically.
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Couldn't couldn't you just let Alberta secede and then invade them and make them a protectorate?
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Provincial autonomy through those questions.
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You know, quite frankly, you know, there's nothing to do for us other than do what Albertans do, which is.
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Why do they want independence?
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The people running the Alberta independence movement are traitors to the nation of Canada.
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They are actively in collaboration with American business
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and politicians in an effort to secede so
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that they can use their control over Alberta's gas
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and oil to just make themselves like an open business partner of the United States.
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They're basically trying to like break off a fraction of the Canadian state so they can sell it out to America.
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They're traitors.
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They've actively worked with foreign agents, unregistered foreign agents in an effort to break apart the Canadian state.
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I think they should be arrested.
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Like I genuinely, like I, like I, it's in my opinion, didn't Albertan mineral CEOs meet with the U S government, a backdoor meeting recently.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, they did.
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No, they're literally, they're literally traitors.
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Like how, how, how would you feel if in your country, it turned out that a bunch of the politicians
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that you elected secretly met with U .S businessmen
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and tried to agree to a deal where they break away
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from your country in order to sell out their assets to U .S business.
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Roll up our sleeves and work harder.
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You know, when have you ever seen, you know, the NDP or, you know, even the Conservative Party, for that matter, the Liberal Party,
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when they pull, you know, 23 or 24 percent in the polls say, oh, I guess that's it.
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We're going to fold up our party now
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and we're going to go home you know we have you know hundreds of thousands of Albertans
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that can do the math they understand
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that this year we're going to be sending over 90 billion dollars a year to Ottawa
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and we're going to be getting less than 20 billion dollars of
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that back you know we're sick and tired of being regulated by Ottawa we're sick and tired of
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you know of the way
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that we're being treated by Ottawa
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I mean even the arrogance of Mark Carney coming to Alberta last week on his first day here saying oh
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I don't even have to talk about equalization until 2029.
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I don't care about the 61 % of Albertans that voted, you know, for an end to equalization, you know, screw all of y 'all.
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I'm not going to talk to you until 2029.
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That's the arrogance that Albertans are fed up with.
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Our movement isn't going anywhere.
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And if we, I actually do appreciate the fact that rather than being like smug and smarmy,
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like a grifter, he actually does seem upset over this.
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You know what I mean?
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If I learned anything through this process is
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that it's really hard to do anything as long as you have somebody leading the province.
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This guy owes millions to U .S investors and First Nation groups he defrauded as a lawyer.
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I guess that explains why he wants to make a quick buck selling Alberta off to Americans, huh?
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He is willing to spend, you know, literally, everyone I'm hearing now, almost $9 million advertising against us, campaigning against us, bringing the entire weight of,
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you know, the entire Canadian political establishment, you know, down on, you know, on Alberta with all the fake stories about,
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you know, water being sold to the United States.
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All this, all these, you know, all the fake news and all the lies that have been told, you know, in the last couple of weeks.
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You know, the fact that, you know, we're sitting where we're sitting right now, I think is very encouraging.
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And it shows us that, you know, again, as Albertans, what do we do?
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We roll up our sleeves and we work harder because that's who we are as people.
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So on that point, obviously, we don't have full official results yet.
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But what do those next steps look like when you do roll up your sleeves here?
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And what's the next step?
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Well, I think the biggest thing for us is we're seeing this in Latin America as well, where companies like
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Meta, American companies like
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Meta are openly interfering in the Brazilian election.
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Likewise, I believe it was Meta.
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Meta also took down the account of the organizer for the No Kings rally.
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Meta took down was it
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Meta or was it TikTok?
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One of them took down the, there was another like prominent, oh, it was the distributor for the Elon Musk documentary.
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You know, in a world where corporations act so indiscreetly to subvert election results,
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I really think nations have to start cracking down on this.
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And I know that any modern liberal democracy
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that attempts to crack down on the influence of capital on elections would end up doing
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so in a way that gets you thrown into Gitmo if you criticize Israel.
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But like something has to be done.
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Remember what happened in was it is it Romania
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that I'm thinking about where they had like an out of
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nowhere dark horse pro Russian political candidate who just like emerged from the ether
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and very nearly won
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but then it turned out all of his support was from fucking like like Russian bot farms
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and then they ended up canceling his victory because it was all completely fake like the votes were real
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they had to redo the damn election I don't get why capitals targeted Alberta compared to other Canadian provinces
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because it's a it's a it's a it would be like
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a petro state an independent Alberta would be a culturally void petro state essentially it'd be like
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Russia just to focus on you know what we've been saying we're going to be focusing on
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and that's that we want to have a special general meeting to discuss whether
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or not danielle smith still has the confidence of the united conservative party of alberta to continue as a leader
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you know she spent taxpayer dollars to campaign against us she's been manipulating the base of the party
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you know for years
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you know has been prohibiting any discussion of independence at ucp annual general meetings um you know on and on and on. So,
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you know, it's time to have a serious discussion as to whether
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or not a super majority of the United Conservative Party of
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Alberta want to continue to be led by a federalist who's in bed with Nahid Nanshi, Mark Carney, Rachel Notley, and the rest of the socialists
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and globalists that have literally been ruining this province and ruining this country.
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Just real quick before we wrap up here, do you feel there's the support to achieve that?
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The incredible irony of calling anyone globalist when your entire movement is about selling out the foreign capital, but that's that's every far right that's every
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it's every single time every single one um
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it's always about selling out the foreign capital
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it's the only thing fascists care about of course
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there is i mean look at the you know the core base at the end of the evening tonight
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there's going to be over 600 000 albertans
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that have voted in favor of independence like they're not going home
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they're not changing their you know their minds
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they're not changing their votes all of a sudden mathematics aren't going to change
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and all you know and uh you know people can't figure out
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that if we keep all of the money
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that we currently send to Ottawa in Alberta for the benefit of people in Alberta
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that our lives won't be substantially better in this province without idiots in Ottawa, you know, continuing to destroy the economy of this province.
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We don't want a prime minister in Ottawa asserting a veto over export pipeline construction like
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Mark Carney has been doing.
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Preconditions now.
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According to the New York Times, the person he's criticizing got power by promising to secede and changed her mind when she won.
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Lamao.
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It's I'm telling you, man, neo -fascism doesn't work.
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It's grifters all the way down.
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That's fucking funny, dog.
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Good for him.
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Good for him.
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Welcome back.
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Elections Alberta is confirming for us that all polls in the province are now closed.
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So we're getting our first look at results.
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You're seeing them as I'm seeing.
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Nah, it looks great.
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These are results for question 10.
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Remain in Canada or hold a separation referendum?
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So far, the raw numbers for Remain in Canada, just over 618 ,000.
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And to go further and hold a referendum.
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Okay, so it wasn't even 75 -25 at the end of the day then.
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It was 80 -20.
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Okay, that's pretty bad for them.
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Yeah, it wasn't even to secede.
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It was just to have the referendum to begin with.
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Referendum sitting just under 20%.
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This is an 80 -20.
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Still too high though.
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Keep in mind, this is an 80 -20 result to even have.
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Oh, this is out of date.
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Okay, this is the out of date.
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So it did end up being 25 -75.
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The 25 -75 result to even have the referendum was after, and I'm being serious here, a literal state -led PSYOP.
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Like the American government participated in this.
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Canadian politicians and business leaders were meeting with the Trump administration over trying to set up preemptive business deals in Alberta.
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So in my opinion, being on the ass end of a US -led PSYOP and still coming out 75 over 25, that's pretty okay.
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...split.
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These are early results.
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These are the first results that have dropped in, and these are more than likely the results that have come from,
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more than likely the results that have come from advance voting and also from the mail -in ballots because...
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More like J .D.
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Vance voting.
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Got him.
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A Globe and Mail investigation found
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that political operatives tied to the American Republican Party were assisting the campaign for Alberta to secede.
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The investigation also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington, D .C to met with reps of the U .S.
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State Department, they were offered access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil.
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A few days later, Mitch Sylvester, chief executive office of the Alberta Prosperity Project,
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told the Mail the Office of Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner Anton Bogman contacted him and his group.
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The premier of BC called the invitation of foreign interference treason.
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If only they'd actually get arrested.
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80 % of suspected foreign influence activity has been linked to Russian sources and 20 % U .S.
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sources initially.
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Jesus.
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The report points out Russian content is covert and can be traced to a pro -Kremlin content farm known as Pravda Network.
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Meanwhile, U .S activity is more overt, with prominent American influencers, podcasts, and websites promoting Alberta's separation on a variety of platforms.
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Video of Besant openly backing it.
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In the U .S., more than our northern neighbor.
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That's even with all the oil and the natural resources coming out of Canada.
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Texas is still larger.
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Well, look, Alberta is a wealth of natural resources, but they won't let them build a pipeline to the Pacific.
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I think we should let them come down into the U .S., and Alberta is a natural partner for the U .S.
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They have great resources.
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The Albertans are very independent people.
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Rumors that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada
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or not sounds like you may know something up
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there uh what uh
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you know people are saying people people remember um activity from the kremlin was covert activity from america was more overt
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people are talking scott besant being like uh uh i wasn't supposed to tell you
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but wink we might be getting some deals up
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there talking people are talking people want uh sovereignty they they want what the U .S has got.
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Because when I look at Europe, how can they have sovereignty?
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They don't have immigration sovereignty.
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They've let their borders be overrun.
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They don't have economic sovereignty.
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They are dependent on China and they do not have a security sovereignty.
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How the fuck did this happen to my country?
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Because Canada, along with America and basically every other country on earth, with the possible exception of North Korea, is completely beholden to its creditors.
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National allegiance does not exist for the wealthy.
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They simply don't have it.
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Capital is completely international.
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So even China?
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Yes, to a large extent to China as well, though less so than Canada.
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So Canada won't go after these obvious traitors because to do
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so would begin unwinding a snag in the fabric of modern geopolitics.
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What are you going to do?
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Alberta
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separatism flops hard it's true it's true everyone from Alberta who isn't from Edmonton is a godless savage I believe
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that yeah for sure I believe that I'd be willing to believe that
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everyone from northern Texas you know fucking animals
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again the problem is the federal government is also used to compromising with Quebec separatists
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but they were operating in good faith is the difference I think that might be an element remember like
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Mark Carney's a banker and bankers prioritize the interests of their creditors above everyone else.
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They won't go after the separatists because they won't go after capital.
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You know, that's the that's the pattern.
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The Alberta government spent millions to propagandize to other questions to be anti -immigrant.
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What do you mean to other questions?
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Hold on.
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On October 19th, 2026, a provincial referendum will be held in which the Okay, this is from your Alberta.
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This is from the government of Alberta.
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This is a government video from a Canadian province.
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I'm sat.
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My ass is seated.
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My white ass currently planted in the seat.
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Thank you.
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Alberta is putting forward nine questions for Albertans to vote on.
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These issues were identified during the Alberta Next Panel town halls, a process built on extensive consultations with Albertans,
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subject matter experts, and policymakers from every corner of the province.
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Quebec separatism was an actual movement.
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Listen, I think Quebec separatism is also fucking retarded.
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The difference is that Quebec separatism was largely driven by a genuine cultural distinction and also by genuine heartfelt French sauvanism,
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which is very, very different from in Alberta, like five oil barons are trying to sell out the state to American capital.
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But that is different.
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In my opinion, I am much more forgiving of retardation that is born out of genuine cultural or ethnic grievance,
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like a real thing that's just a product of the difficulties involved in integrating nations
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that have different origins and backgrounds and stuff, rather than just like five billionaires wanting to rape more.
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I think like I, in my opinion, it's just like, I miss those days.
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I miss the days when you had more and more political issues that basically came down to people are retarded and prideful.
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I wish, I wish it was more often like that, man.
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These nine referendum questions get to the heart of some of the biggest challenges we face
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and what kind of province we want to hand our next generation, how we grow, how we protect families and the services they depend on
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and how we strengthen our place within a united canada five
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of those nine questions involve provincial immigration policy here's why
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that matters alberta has always welcomed newcomers to our province to participate in
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and grow the economy i don't know how this works by the way
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i don't know to what extent can a province even determine
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its own immigration policy in america the states have no control
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whatsoever over it they have no absolutely not it's entirely federal historically policies support
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They have none.
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Okay.
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Supporting sustainable immigration levels worked well under the leadership of prime ministers like Stephen Harper, Jean Chrétien, and others.
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But Justin Trudeau changed all that when he abandoned those common sense policies
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and brought millions of temporary residents into our country in just a few years.
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Good to see the American government isn't the only one that's been inappropriately injecting political bias into their public messaging.
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Over the past five years, our province has added an estimated 600 ,000 people, many of them temporary residents.
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Isn't it like all students too?
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The whole like Canadian immigration boom was mostly off student visas, wasn't it?
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These are like the best people you want in your country because they're disproportionately wealthy and educated.
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That is roughly half the size of the cities of Calgary or Edmonton.
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And taxpayers are picking up the bill for the tremendous pressure that kind of unsustainable population growth brings with it.
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For example, the cost to provide health care to temporary residents is about $400 million per year.
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Also, I mean, what do they pay in taxes?
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Also, I'm pretty sure that like the population density of Alberta is comparable to the Gobi Desert.
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So I like it's just like a made up issue.
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And the cost to provide social services like the child care subsidy,
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Alberta Child and Family Benefit and student aid are estimated to cost more than $100 million.
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What are they paying taxes?
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Then there are also rough...
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Do you think states should have the ability to set their immigration?
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No. I barely think countries should be able to set their immigration policy, man.
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Countries just keep fucking it up.
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45 ,000 children of temporary residents in Alberta's classrooms, costing another $600 million annually.
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That means the annual cost to provide provincial programs to temporary residents is well over $1 billion.
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What do they pay in taxes?
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When you also consider the need to build more schools and other infrastructure.
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If states can't decide immigration, how do sanctuary cities exist?
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Totally different thing.
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A sanctuary city means that the mayor has instructed the police department or the police department is not just instructed,
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but legally the police department will not cooperate with federal law enforcement on immigration activities like immigration enforcement.
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It has nothing to do with the superseding of state law over federal law.
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It's just the police won't cooperate, which they're not legally obligated to.
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generally speaking unless like the chain of command is followed
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there's no legal reason why a local city police officer has to follow along with
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and assist a federal agent in their investigation
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they can just tell them to piss off to support
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this amount of growth in temporary residents meanwhile our province's youth
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unemployment rate in 2025 was 15 .6 percent young albertans looking
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for their first job are competing in a market where tens
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of thousands of entry -level positions have been filled by temporary workers who yeah
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this looks like also the frame rate of this video is like 20
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so i don't trust these people's uh you know immigration prescriptions anyway aren't here long term
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and there are other challenges caused by this massive growth in temporary residents especially as it relates to the cost
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and availability of housing for purchase
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and rent alberta has always welcomed sustainable levels of immigration to grow our economy and we always will.
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Newcomers coming to our province to help grow our economy and eventually become permanent residents and Canadian citizens have been...
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Migration helped Canada become the most educated country in the world.
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It is genuinely crazy to see the, like, especially now that I'm in Europe, because Europe has received a lot of,
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we'll call them unproductive migrants and refugees as a consequence of Western meddling in the Middle East, Syrian refugee crisis, ISIS, et cetera, et cetera.
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And like, as we saw, I mean, we talked about this a lot more back in 2021 and stuff.
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It didn't even make a blip on the crime rate.
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Germany took in like a fucking squib tilly in Syrians and it didn't even increase the crime rate, you know, but in America and Canada,
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largely the majority of the immigrants they get, like it's like non illegal immigrants, like legal immigrants are quite wealthy and quite well -educated.
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So to see the new world bitching about their immigration crop when Europe has barely been, well, affected in a crime sense.
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You know, there's obviously like a larger cultural.
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I do see the legacy of the Syrian refugee crisis and the cultural differences here in the Netherlands a lot.
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Apparently, the Netherlands also just added new restrictions to migrants.
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I need to read up on that.
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I need to, it's the midterms are coming up, man.
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I'm trying to learn more about the country I live in now.
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In a critical part of our success throughout our history.
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But there has to be a balance.
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What we need is more oversight to ensure that our immigration levels and policies are working for Albertans.
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Yeah, fuck off.
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Anyway, they lost.
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Are you already a citizen?
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No. No. That is not how that works.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Alberta Separatism FLOPS Hard”. This video has 356 sentences and 4096 words to shadow. The speech runs for 23:20. The speaker talks at a natural 176 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| immigration noun | /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/ | The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence. |
| province noun | /ˈpɹɔv.ɪns/ | A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country. |
| referendum noun | /ˌɹɛfəˈɹɛndəm/ | A direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment. |
| temporary adjective | /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/ | Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time. |
| sovereignty noun | /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹənti/ | Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something. |
| provincial adjective | /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/ | Of or pertaining to a province. |
| immigrant noun | /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/ | A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there. |
| traitor noun | /ˈtɹeɪtɚ/ | Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or… |
| extent noun | /ɪkˈstɛnt/ | A range of values or locations. |
| genuine adjective | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juˌɪn/ | Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native. |
| wealthy adjective | /ˈwɛl.θi/ | Possessing financial wealth; rich. |
| sleeve noun | /sliv/ | The part of a garment that covers the arm. |
| educate verb | /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/ | To instruct or train. |
| meanwhile adverb | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place. |
| enforcement noun | /ɪnˈfoɹsm(ə)nt/ | The act of enforcing; compulsion. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sell out verb | To sell all of a supply or stock of something. |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
| roll up verb | To dominate by accumulating; to become dominant by accumulating. |
| take down verb | To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed. |
| turn out verb | To end up; to result. |
| break apart verb | To dismantle something into its base components. |
| break away verb | To leave suddenly. |
| break off verb | To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You know what I mean?
- What century are we in?
- What are you going to do?
- What do you mean to other questions?
- Also, I mean, what do they pay in taxes?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | haven't been crying · I've been saying · we've been saying |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been · It's not been · have voted |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | should be arrested · being regulated · being treated |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 92 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, ethnic /ˈɛθ.nɪk/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, provincial /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, establishment /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ.mənt/
- Long words — get the stress right: immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, referendum /ˌɹɛfəˈɹɛndəm/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, sovereignty /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹənti/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like immigration, province, referendum.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.