February 3, 2025 • 19 mins
Trump announced tariffs between Canada and the USA and the world goes bananas. Actually, can we grow bananas in Canada? If not, I guess we’ll go without. Trade war, you say? But this could have been prevented. With proper leaders and government policies. Not that we have a federal government able to discuss these issues because Trudeau prorogued Parliament. It’s almost like this might have been all planned. 🤔
February 2, 2025
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(00:00):
Well, good evening everybody. It's Chris here from the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror, Alberta.
(00:15):
And I don't know if you can hear me. So maybe just put a comment up if you can hear me.
I was going to do a podcast tonight with the, you know, the little countdown timer and the
beautiful Stumpy Cat intro for the Chris and Carrie show. But I decided that I want to do
something a little quicker and just get on with my evening because I think I'm going to watch a
(00:36):
little bit of TV. Although who needs to watch TV when reality is as good as it is now. So I just
wanted to talk a little bit about these tariffs. In case you don't know, the United States is
putting 25% tariffs on all Canadian exports to the United States and 10% on Canadian energy. So
(01:04):
what does that mean for us here in Canada? Does that mean we're going to pay 25% more for everything?
No, absolutely. Absolutely it does not. If you follow the, you know, classic supply and demand
stuff, it should actually make stuff cheaper. But it probably won't because the market is artificially
artificially manipulated through many other sources. So really what it is, is the United
(01:31):
States is charging Americans 25% on anything that comes from Canada. So if an American buys a
hundred dollar widget from Canada, they got to pay their shipping fees, the hundred dollars plus $25
tax to the federal government. That means that it becomes cheaper for the United States to buy
(01:53):
their things from other countries, from other suppliers. If they can buy the widget from say
India for a hundred dollars with no tariff, that's what they're going to do. They're going to buy from
India because why would they pay 25% more for something from us? So let's rewind a minute. Why
did the USA, why did the United States of America do this to Canada? Do they hate us? No, they
(02:18):
absolutely do not. What's happened is the culmination of probably 20 or 25 years of horrible
management in this thing that we call confederation. That clicking by the way, is my chihuahua. It takes
her like 18,000 attempts to jump up on the couch and her toes click the whole time. So this is the
result of mismanagement for decades. This is the result of a country that is so politically
(02:43):
apathetic that they are willing, were willing to allow what this country was supposed to be, to be
flushed down the toilet. Not by one, but two Trudeaus. This is the culmination of decades of
Canadians not paying attention to the policies that are going on around us. So the Americans are
(03:06):
taxing imports into Canada. So the Americans have to pay more. Therefore they're not going to want
to buy our goods. Now you wouldn't think that was such a big deal except for the fact that 77% of
our trade is with the United States. I don't think that we, there is any other country we trade with
(03:26):
that we do more than 5% of our total business with. You can look that up online. I'm sure the stats
are there. But the Americans, it's 77% of our trade. In Alberta it's a little higher. It's probably,
I think it's 87%. And 95% of our energy exports go to the United States from Alberta. We've put
(03:46):
ourselves, pardon me, scratch that, we've allowed ourselves to be put in this position by
non-governmental organizations that have lobbied against our prosperity. Billions of dollars of
American money. Now this is in, what is that report called? Jason Kenney Commissioned this. I can't
remember what it was called. But there was a report done outlining where the money came from
(04:12):
that was used to demonize our industries here in Canada. And it was mostly from the United States.
And we allowed it to happen. We had pipelines that were supposed to be built east and west. We had
another one that we wanted to go south. And they didn't get done because of regulatory bullshit,
because of ideological fairy tale fallacies that our federal government pushed saying our oil here
(04:34):
in Alberta is dirty. So we couldn't build our energy east pipeline. And we just completed the
Trans Mountain Pipeline to move some more oil west. But we still can't get tankers on the west
coast to move our oil. And we're still not moving LNG through the Kinnomat facility. So we're stuck,
(04:56):
depending on one country's trade, the United States, for exports. How stupid is that? And
whose fault is it? Well, it's Canada's fault. Probably not so much Alberta's fault, because
we've been lobbying to get these projects completed, because many people here in Alberta
(05:20):
had the foresight to realize that one trading partner really is a bad idea. So now the federal
government is playing this game of chicken with the United States, the world's largest economy.
Canada, a broke country that is not unified by any means, is playing a game of economical chicken
with the biggest economy in the world. Donald Trump specifically said, if Canada retaliates
(05:47):
with tariffs, I'm going to double our tariffs. You know what I say about that? Good. I want to see
a 50% tariff or 100% tariff. And then let's see reality slap Canada in the face. And maybe they
will abandon their bullshit ideological policies and get back to reality and start pursuing
(06:09):
prosperity again. I don't think that's going to happen. I think it's going to be a pissing match
with the prime minister on his way out and incoming prime minister who we're not going to elect and
who's going to punish us with horrible, horrible policies and more taxes and things will get worse.
But viva Alberta. Alberta stands in a very unique position in this confederation. We have everything
(06:36):
we need here. We have people who are determined, who have the drive to do great things, and we
want to prosper. We've also been very frustrated since 1905 when we joined confederation after
realizing that we're never going to have a voice in parliament. Oh yeah, okay, sure, we have a voice
in parliament, but not a big enough voice. Most Albertans don't speak French. The majority of
(07:01):
Albertans will never be able to be the prime minister of this country. Do you think that was
intentional? Why is it that a country with 90% English speaking inhabitants has a rule, a law,
that prevents people who don't speak both official languages from being the prime minister?
(07:21):
Kind of stacks the deck in the favor of the east, doesn't it? So we can't change any of these
policies from Alberta. We can't elect a bunch of people to go to parliament and change these
policies. We have to rely on people like Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh and Mark Carney to do
these things for us, and they never will. There has never been a prime minister ever in the history
(07:44):
of this country that has done anything to fix the inequity between the east and the west, and now
we're going to pay the price, and it's going to be a hefty one. You remember before when I said that
it's not a tax that we pay this tariff, it's an import tax the United States pays when they bring
(08:06):
stuff from Canada? Well, they're not going to want to trade with us because they don't want to pay
more than market value for their products. Energy might be okay because they already buy our crude
oil from Alberta, our Western Canada select oil for 30% less than market value. So if there's an
(08:27):
extra 10%, instead of making 300 billion on the 100 billion they pay for our oil, they'll make 200
billion. So they'll probably still do that. Anyway, the rest of it, it's not going to go south
anywhere unless there's a really good business case for it. So we might see a glut of products.
We might see prices dropping a little bit because we're going to have too much stuff. We have no
(08:51):
one to sell it to. And if supply and demand dictates the prices across the market, we should
see discounts on our prices here. Now that would be a short-term benefit because we would also be
losing billions of dollars being injected into our economy by selling things to the United States.
We have no other customers. Like I said before, United States is 77% of our international trade.
(09:16):
So we're going to be relying on the other 23%. And those other, that other 23% that we trade with
are also trading with the United States. So things are going to get really, really weird.
But Alberta has a chance to do something great. I've been saying this for years. All paths lead
(09:40):
to Alberta independence. All paths. If you want to fix these problems in Canada,
we need this province to hold a referendum on independence so that we have leverage that will
force the federal government to negotiate with us. I see people all the time saying,
oh, we need a constitutional convention. Yeah, well, you know what? I need to win the lottery and
(10:03):
hit all sevens on American Original at the casino, but it's not going to happen. Why does that?
Because the deck is stacked against us. A constitutional convention requires seven out of
10, a minimum of 70% of the provinces with a 50% plus one majority to agree, a majority of the
Senate, majority of parliament. It's not going to happen. We're not going to get a constitutional
(10:25):
convention, but we could open the constitution if Alberta had a referendum and force the federal
government and the other provinces to negotiate with us. It's going to become very, very difficult
to make a decision. It's going to become very, very clear how much power Alberta holds in
confederation over the next few months. As all of the other exports dwindle and ours remain
(10:52):
somewhat the same, at least energy, because energy is about 85% of our imports,
there's going to be some eyes opened. If you believe that Alberta should be its own independent
market, we could make our own trade deals, much like Danielle Smith has been doing. And by the way,
if it wasn't for Danielle going down to Mar-a-Lago and meeting with President Trump,
(11:15):
unlike any of the other politicians in this country, we would also have a 25%
tariff on our energy, by the way. So she was acting as if she was doing the job of the prime
minister, because our prime minister sucks so bad that he couldn't uncross his legs fast enough and
go and have a talk man to man with Donald Trump. That was a big mistake. Anyway, Smith is doing it
(11:41):
for Alberta. She's doing what we elected her to do. If you want an independent Alberta, we need a
referendum on independence. If you think that joining the United States and becoming a 51st
state is the best option, I don't believe it is, but I'm not against it, we need a referendum on
independence because the United States cannot annex a part of another country. They can only
(12:05):
annex or absorb sovereign nations that can hold a referendum and agree to it.
All paths lead to Alberta independence. At one point, we must be independent so that we can make
these choices going further, going into the future and prevent things like this from happening again.
(12:26):
If Alberta was independent right now and we were negotiating our own trade deals with the United
States and Canada, things would be very, very, very different. Of course, Alberta wouldn't be
stupid enough to pick a fight with a trading partner that's simply asking us to increase our
security. And no, it's not just about southern border security. This is about continental
(12:50):
security. We're talking the Canada-US border on two sides, including Alaska, our north border,
which is severely under surveilled, under patrolled. We have some problems that need to be fixed. We
don't contribute to our NATO spending like we're supposed to. We're supposed to be contributing
2% of our GDP to NATO men and we haven't done it for years, but the United States has been picking
(13:15):
up the tab. And then they elect a president that says he's going to get the best deal for Americans
and fix the inequities that are going on between America and their trading partners. Canada is
engaging in inequitable trade with the United States, not necessarily with the economic stuff,
but when you factor in everything else, it's very one-sided. So he's doing what he was elected to do.
(13:41):
And we don't have somebody that's going to do what we want them to do. We don't have somebody we can
elect to do the things we want them to do because we have Justin Trudeau and we have probably an
incoming emergency that will prevent an election. So now we're going to be stuck with Justin Trudeau
on steroids, who is Mark Carney. Our governments, the liberal government and these liberal MPs
(14:06):
have been bad mouthing and trashing and insulting the president of the United States in the midst
of a trade war. They are doing nothing to resolve this. I often wonder if maybe when Prime Minister
Trudeau said that Canada would be the first post-national state, if he literally meant that it
(14:28):
was going to be a post-national state, because even a little potato like Justin Trudeau couldn't
possibly not know the devastation that this country is going to see through his policies and his
tit-for-tat chicken game with the United States. He knows this is going to hurt the economy.
(14:50):
And now they're talking about CERB 2.0, universal basic income, to help us all through this tariff
thing. Our dollar crashed significantly and interest rates like quadrupled the last time
we did a CERB thing in this country, for no reason by the way, it didn't need to happen.
(15:10):
Now they're talking about doing it again. So not only is our economy being impacted by not being
able to trade with our biggest trading partner, now our government wants to print more money and
dole it out further, devaluing our dollar. Do you know what happens to countries that do that?
Do you know what happens to countries that don't practice fiscal and economic responsibility?
(15:35):
They turn into Venezuela. This is exactly what happened. Not exactly. This is very similar to
what happened to Venezuela. Venezuela was a wealthy country, oil rich, access to tide water on
three quarters of their border. Some of the most talented people in the world in that country.
(15:57):
And they made a bunch of really, really bad decisions at the hands of a communist dictator
like Justin Trudeau. Two years later, their money was worth nothing.
And it was the same talking points. Don't worry, we're going to help you through this.
We're going to help you through this people. We're going to feed you. Don't worry. We'll make sure
(16:18):
that if you stand in line for eight hours, you'll get a loaf of bread. Yeah, okay. I watched tens of
thousands of Venezuelans walking from Venezuela through Colombia on their way to wherever they
could go to get away from the communism that destroyed their country. I saw that with my own
two eyes. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it. I worked in Colombia almost two years and
(16:43):
every single time I drove that road, there was Venezuelans walking because of what their
government did. And we're doing the same thing in this country. So when I say that all paths lead
to Alberta independence, I don't just mean that all paths should lead to Alberta independence.
We should kind of look at independence. What I'm saying is we must pursue Alberta independence
(17:11):
if we are to salvage what this country was supposed to be. We're the only province that can do it.
We're the only province that can do it. None of the other ones can. BC is, oh, they're not buying
wine from Republican states. You frigging dipshit. Doug Ford, oh, we're going to not buy alcohol made
(17:37):
in the United States. You fool. You absolute fool. They are ignoring the big picture and the big
problem. And they're agitating the issue. So much so that I actually wonder if maybe they don't want
to fix this problem. Maybe this is the idea. Maybe this is the plan. Maybe this is how Justin Trudeau
(18:01):
forces Canada and Canadians to completely give up their sovereignty, to own nothing and be happy,
to depend on the government to give them serbs so that they can afford their severely overpriced
carbon taxed goods. Who knows? In the grand scheme of things, the why is irrelevant.
(18:24):
Because we can fix it. And all we have to do is educate Albertans as to why we need out of this
dysfunctional, never unified confederation that was never ever to our benefit. Ever. Anyway,
(18:46):
I think I'm going to go watch TV. I like to watch these post apocalyptic TV shows
where it shows people having to survive in a barren wasteland because of stupid decisions
that governments and policymakers made. Not like that would ever happen though, right? Right.
(19:06):
I'll talk to you later. PS, all paths lead to Albertan penance.
Well, good evening everybody. It's Chris here from the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror, Alberta.
(00:15):
And I don't know if you can hear me. So maybe just put a comment up if you can hear me.
I was going to do a podcast tonight with the, you know, the little countdown timer and the
beautiful Stumpy Cat intro for the Chris and Carrie show. But I decided that I want to do
something a little quicker and just get on with my evening because I think I'm going to watch a
(00:36):
little bit of TV. Although who needs to watch TV when reality is as good as it is now. So I just
wanted to talk a little bit about these tariffs. In case you don't know, the United States is
putting 25% tariffs on all Canadian exports to the United States and 10% on Canadian energy. So
(01:04):
what does that mean for us here in Canada? Does that mean we're going to pay 25% more for everything?
No, absolutely. Absolutely it does not. If you follow the, you know, classic supply and demand
stuff, it should actually make stuff cheaper. But it probably won't because the market is artificially
artificially manipulated through many other sources. So really what it is, is the United
(01:31):
States is charging Americans 25% on anything that comes from Canada. So if an American buys a
hundred dollar widget from Canada, they got to pay their shipping fees, the hundred dollars plus $25
tax to the federal government. That means that it becomes cheaper for the United States to buy
(01:53):
their things from other countries, from other suppliers. If they can buy the widget from say
India for a hundred dollars with no tariff, that's what they're going to do. They're going to buy from
India because why would they pay 25% more for something from us? So let's rewind a minute. Why
did the USA, why did the United States of America do this to Canada? Do they hate us? No, they
(02:18):
absolutely do not. What's happened is the culmination of probably 20 or 25 years of horrible
management in this thing that we call confederation. That clicking by the way, is my chihuahua. It takes
her like 18,000 attempts to jump up on the couch and her toes click the whole time. So this is the
result of mismanagement for decades. This is the result of a country that is so politically
(02:43):
apathetic that they are willing, were willing to allow what this country was supposed to be, to be
flushed down the toilet. Not by one, but two Trudeaus. This is the culmination of decades of
Canadians not paying attention to the policies that are going on around us. So the Americans are
(03:06):
taxing imports into Canada. So the Americans have to pay more. Therefore they're not going to want
to buy our goods. Now you wouldn't think that was such a big deal except for the fact that 77% of
our trade is with the United States. I don't think that we, there is any other country we trade with
(03:26):
that we do more than 5% of our total business with. You can look that up online. I'm sure the stats
are there. But the Americans, it's 77% of our trade. In Alberta it's a little higher. It's probably,
I think it's 87%. And 95% of our energy exports go to the United States from Alberta. We've put
(03:46):
ourselves, pardon me, scratch that, we've allowed ourselves to be put in this position by
non-governmental organizations that have lobbied against our prosperity. Billions of dollars of
American money. Now this is in, what is that report called? Jason Kenney Commissioned this. I can't
remember what it was called. But there was a report done outlining where the money came from
(04:12):
that was used to demonize our industries here in Canada. And it was mostly from the United States.
And we allowed it to happen. We had pipelines that were supposed to be built east and west. We had
another one that we wanted to go south. And they didn't get done because of regulatory bullshit,
because of ideological fairy tale fallacies that our federal government pushed saying our oil here
(04:34):
in Alberta is dirty. So we couldn't build our energy east pipeline. And we just completed the
Trans Mountain Pipeline to move some more oil west. But we still can't get tankers on the west
coast to move our oil. And we're still not moving LNG through the Kinnomat facility. So we're stuck,
(04:56):
depending on one country's trade, the United States, for exports. How stupid is that? And
whose fault is it? Well, it's Canada's fault. Probably not so much Alberta's fault, because
we've been lobbying to get these projects completed, because many people here in Alberta
(05:20):
had the foresight to realize that one trading partner really is a bad idea. So now the federal
government is playing this game of chicken with the United States, the world's largest economy.
Canada, a broke country that is not unified by any means, is playing a game of economical chicken
with the biggest economy in the world. Donald Trump specifically said, if Canada retaliates
(05:47):
with tariffs, I'm going to double our tariffs. You know what I say about that? Good. I want to see
a 50% tariff or 100% tariff. And then let's see reality slap Canada in the face. And maybe they
will abandon their bullshit ideological policies and get back to reality and start pursuing
(06:09):
prosperity again. I don't think that's going to happen. I think it's going to be a pissing match
with the prime minister on his way out and incoming prime minister who we're not going to elect and
who's going to punish us with horrible, horrible policies and more taxes and things will get worse.
But viva Alberta. Alberta stands in a very unique position in this confederation. We have everything
(06:36):
we need here. We have people who are determined, who have the drive to do great things, and we
want to prosper. We've also been very frustrated since 1905 when we joined confederation after
realizing that we're never going to have a voice in parliament. Oh yeah, okay, sure, we have a voice
in parliament, but not a big enough voice. Most Albertans don't speak French. The majority of
(07:01):
Albertans will never be able to be the prime minister of this country. Do you think that was
intentional? Why is it that a country with 90% English speaking inhabitants has a rule, a law,
that prevents people who don't speak both official languages from being the prime minister?
(07:21):
Kind of stacks the deck in the favor of the east, doesn't it? So we can't change any of these
policies from Alberta. We can't elect a bunch of people to go to parliament and change these
policies. We have to rely on people like Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh and Mark Carney to do
these things for us, and they never will. There has never been a prime minister ever in the history
(07:44):
of this country that has done anything to fix the inequity between the east and the west, and now
we're going to pay the price, and it's going to be a hefty one. You remember before when I said that
it's not a tax that we pay this tariff, it's an import tax the United States pays when they bring
(08:06):
stuff from Canada? Well, they're not going to want to trade with us because they don't want to pay
more than market value for their products. Energy might be okay because they already buy our crude
oil from Alberta, our Western Canada select oil for 30% less than market value. So if there's an
(08:27):
extra 10%, instead of making 300 billion on the 100 billion they pay for our oil, they'll make 200
billion. So they'll probably still do that. Anyway, the rest of it, it's not going to go south
anywhere unless there's a really good business case for it. So we might see a glut of products.
We might see prices dropping a little bit because we're going to have too much stuff. We have no
(08:51):
one to sell it to. And if supply and demand dictates the prices across the market, we should
see discounts on our prices here. Now that would be a short-term benefit because we would also be
losing billions of dollars being injected into our economy by selling things to the United States.
We have no other customers. Like I said before, United States is 77% of our international trade.
(09:16):
So we're going to be relying on the other 23%. And those other, that other 23% that we trade with
are also trading with the United States. So things are going to get really, really weird.
But Alberta has a chance to do something great. I've been saying this for years. All paths lead
(09:40):
to Alberta independence. All paths. If you want to fix these problems in Canada,
we need this province to hold a referendum on independence so that we have leverage that will
force the federal government to negotiate with us. I see people all the time saying,
oh, we need a constitutional convention. Yeah, well, you know what? I need to win the lottery and
(10:03):
hit all sevens on American Original at the casino, but it's not going to happen. Why does that?
Because the deck is stacked against us. A constitutional convention requires seven out of
10, a minimum of 70% of the provinces with a 50% plus one majority to agree, a majority of the
Senate, majority of parliament. It's not going to happen. We're not going to get a constitutional
(10:25):
convention, but we could open the constitution if Alberta had a referendum and force the federal
government and the other provinces to negotiate with us. It's going to become very, very difficult
to make a decision. It's going to become very, very clear how much power Alberta holds in
confederation over the next few months. As all of the other exports dwindle and ours remain
(10:52):
somewhat the same, at least energy, because energy is about 85% of our imports,
there's going to be some eyes opened. If you believe that Alberta should be its own independent
market, we could make our own trade deals, much like Danielle Smith has been doing. And by the way,
if it wasn't for Danielle going down to Mar-a-Lago and meeting with President Trump,
(11:15):
unlike any of the other politicians in this country, we would also have a 25%
tariff on our energy, by the way. So she was acting as if she was doing the job of the prime
minister, because our prime minister sucks so bad that he couldn't uncross his legs fast enough and
go and have a talk man to man with Donald Trump. That was a big mistake. Anyway, Smith is doing it
(11:41):
for Alberta. She's doing what we elected her to do. If you want an independent Alberta, we need a
referendum on independence. If you think that joining the United States and becoming a 51st
state is the best option, I don't believe it is, but I'm not against it, we need a referendum on
independence because the United States cannot annex a part of another country. They can only
(12:05):
annex or absorb sovereign nations that can hold a referendum and agree to it.
All paths lead to Alberta independence. At one point, we must be independent so that we can make
these choices going further, going into the future and prevent things like this from happening again.
(12:26):
If Alberta was independent right now and we were negotiating our own trade deals with the United
States and Canada, things would be very, very, very different. Of course, Alberta wouldn't be
stupid enough to pick a fight with a trading partner that's simply asking us to increase our
security. And no, it's not just about southern border security. This is about continental
(12:50):
security. We're talking the Canada-US border on two sides, including Alaska, our north border,
which is severely under surveilled, under patrolled. We have some problems that need to be fixed. We
don't contribute to our NATO spending like we're supposed to. We're supposed to be contributing
2% of our GDP to NATO men and we haven't done it for years, but the United States has been picking
(13:15):
up the tab. And then they elect a president that says he's going to get the best deal for Americans
and fix the inequities that are going on between America and their trading partners. Canada is
engaging in inequitable trade with the United States, not necessarily with the economic stuff,
but when you factor in everything else, it's very one-sided. So he's doing what he was elected to do.
(13:41):
And we don't have somebody that's going to do what we want them to do. We don't have somebody we can
elect to do the things we want them to do because we have Justin Trudeau and we have probably an
incoming emergency that will prevent an election. So now we're going to be stuck with Justin Trudeau
on steroids, who is Mark Carney. Our governments, the liberal government and these liberal MPs
(14:06):
have been bad mouthing and trashing and insulting the president of the United States in the midst
of a trade war. They are doing nothing to resolve this. I often wonder if maybe when Prime Minister
Trudeau said that Canada would be the first post-national state, if he literally meant that it
(14:28):
was going to be a post-national state, because even a little potato like Justin Trudeau couldn't
possibly not know the devastation that this country is going to see through his policies and his
tit-for-tat chicken game with the United States. He knows this is going to hurt the economy.
(14:50):
And now they're talking about CERB 2.0, universal basic income, to help us all through this tariff
thing. Our dollar crashed significantly and interest rates like quadrupled the last time
we did a CERB thing in this country, for no reason by the way, it didn't need to happen.
(15:10):
Now they're talking about doing it again. So not only is our economy being impacted by not being
able to trade with our biggest trading partner, now our government wants to print more money and
dole it out further, devaluing our dollar. Do you know what happens to countries that do that?
Do you know what happens to countries that don't practice fiscal and economic responsibility?
(15:35):
They turn into Venezuela. This is exactly what happened. Not exactly. This is very similar to
what happened to Venezuela. Venezuela was a wealthy country, oil rich, access to tide water on
three quarters of their border. Some of the most talented people in the world in that country.
(15:57):
And they made a bunch of really, really bad decisions at the hands of a communist dictator
like Justin Trudeau. Two years later, their money was worth nothing.
And it was the same talking points. Don't worry, we're going to help you through this.
We're going to help you through this people. We're going to feed you. Don't worry. We'll make sure
(16:18):
that if you stand in line for eight hours, you'll get a loaf of bread. Yeah, okay. I watched tens of
thousands of Venezuelans walking from Venezuela through Colombia on their way to wherever they
could go to get away from the communism that destroyed their country. I saw that with my own
two eyes. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it. I worked in Colombia almost two years and
(16:43):
every single time I drove that road, there was Venezuelans walking because of what their
government did. And we're doing the same thing in this country. So when I say that all paths lead
to Alberta independence, I don't just mean that all paths should lead to Alberta independence.
We should kind of look at independence. What I'm saying is we must pursue Alberta independence
(17:11):
if we are to salvage what this country was supposed to be. We're the only province that can do it.
We're the only province that can do it. None of the other ones can. BC is, oh, they're not buying
wine from Republican states. You frigging dipshit. Doug Ford, oh, we're going to not buy alcohol made
(17:37):
in the United States. You fool. You absolute fool. They are ignoring the big picture and the big
problem. And they're agitating the issue. So much so that I actually wonder if maybe they don't want
to fix this problem. Maybe this is the idea. Maybe this is the plan. Maybe this is how Justin Trudeau
(18:01):
forces Canada and Canadians to completely give up their sovereignty, to own nothing and be happy,
to depend on the government to give them serbs so that they can afford their severely overpriced
carbon taxed goods. Who knows? In the grand scheme of things, the why is irrelevant.
(18:24):
Because we can fix it. And all we have to do is educate Albertans as to why we need out of this
dysfunctional, never unified confederation that was never ever to our benefit. Ever. Anyway,
(18:46):
I think I'm going to go watch TV. I like to watch these post apocalyptic TV shows
where it shows people having to survive in a barren wasteland because of stupid decisions
that governments and policymakers made. Not like that would ever happen though, right? Right.
(19:06):
I'll talk to you later. PS, all paths lead to Albertan penance.
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