Closer to the Truth, But Still a Lie Danielle Smith’s fireside chat with Rick Bell, columnist with the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun, at the Canada Strong and Free conference in Calgary was intended to share her message “to the separatists if they do not win in the referendum vote”. Noteworthy in that interview (see clip below), with respect to a principle of the UCP party, reading from a script, Smith read:“Loyalty to a united Canada and a commitment for Alberta to be a leader in the Canadian Federation that constructively defends the best interests of the province and its constitutional sovereignty”, and summarized “That was the founding principle of our party, loyalty to a united Canada…That is what has been my guiding principle. That is what I campaigned on.” Included is a clip of Jason Kenney declaring that any UCP members who are not committed to that “core principle of the party”, should be shown the door. Danielle Smith has repeatedly told us in the past that the founding principle was a “sovereign Alberta within a united Canada” and, likewise, that claim has repeatedly been disputed as having been adopted at the UCP’s founding AGM. With this new version, she is getting a little closer to the truth, but to say that it “was the founding principle of our party”, it is still a lie. What Smith read off in that clip was draft principle #26, one of 36 principles that had been proposed for the members’ consideration. In a document, “Policy Declaration 2018”, which summarized what resolutions that were “adopted by the membership” at the Founding Annual General meeting, noteworthy that principle #26 is nowhere to be found and still not to be found in the party’s “Statement of Principles” found at its web site. This should bring her lies to a close. youtube.com/watch?v=alMpHsuN…

With roughly 40% of polls reporting, nearly one in four votes cast have gone to Option 2. Many will see tonight as a catastrophic setback for Alberta’s independence movement. I don’t. What we just witnessed was a grassroots movement stand against the combined weight of Canada’s political, media, and academic establishment, in the face of what I believe was one of the most relentless campaigns against a political movement since COVID. And despite all of that, roughly one in four voters have backed a path toward Alberta independence. Think about where this movement stood just a few years ago. Now, hundreds of thousands of Albertans have expressed their support at the ballot box. I don’t see tonight as the end of anything. I see it as the first major milestone in the next evolution of Alberta’s independence movement. This isn’t the end. It’s the end of the beginning.

Separatists say push for independence won't end with referendum ctvnews.ca/edmonton/video/20…

2026 REFERENDUM - Your last chance to vote is tomorrow. Find out where to vote: ow.ly/FrFK50ZYHn4

#BREAKING: A BOMBSHELL report from the Toronto Star has found that the share of government contracts going to US companies has SKYROCKETED under Mark Carney. One third of all government contracts are now going to US companies, compared to one in five under Justin Trudeau.

Me waiting… on Pierre Poilievre to appoint Quebec MP to lead party's pro-unity campaign in upcoming Quebec election in the fall.

More than 40 countries - Canada and its allies - have sanctions against Belarus for supporting war criminal Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Buying blood potash from Belarus is supporting Russian aggression. It’s wrong and it doesn’t make sense. All of that potash has to be shipped first through Russia, then across the ocean, then across the US to mid-western farmers. Does anyone believe Belarusian blood potash shipped through Russia is going to be more affordable, more sustainable or more ethical than potash shipped from Saskatchewan - right here in North America?