Dennis Modry - Alberta Separatism

So, there's a couple of things I'd like to share with you that uh that I didn't already. Um, one of them was our trip to Washington uh on April the 22nd when Jeff Raph and I um met the senior US administrative officials just a couple steps away from the president and himself. When we walked into the um into the conference hearing, the first comment just as we were sitting down was we recognize and support Alberta becoming a sovereign nation. That was the first comment. And so there's a couple of things I'd like to share with you that uh that I didn't already. Um, one of them was our trip to Washington uh on April the 22nd when Jeff Barath and I um met the senior US administrative officials just a couple steps away from the president himself. When we walked into the um into the conference hearing, the first comment just as we were sitting down was we recognize and support Alberta becoming a sovereign nation. of the first comment. And and right now at right now, to your point, Peter, right now, uh, Alberta 51 isn't on the table, but it could be at some point in the future. You're absolutely correct. Other things that were sort of interesting that we talked about was um a $500 billion uh transition loan that we would only draw down as necessary as we work with the US to transition from a province to a country. And the second thing was with respect to the US currency because we know what will happen to the US dollar when Alberta meets Canada. the dollar will uh will sink even more than it is now. Now in the circumstances of getting out of Canada, we get out from all federal regulation and taxation. So that means the richest of liberty services becomes less well ostensibly your your uh Canadian dollar which is worth less will still be able to buy um because the price points will be lower. But the request that we made is for the US to agree to take every Alberta citizens Canadian dollar and have the bank exchange it for one US. But that's another thing. The planet. We made some specific requests to the US, but it started with a question that came to us. would it be helpful if the president or the secretary of state were to say anything about government sovereignty? And the response was, well, it would be if what you said were two things. Number one, that you talked about the benefit to Albertans, the better of Alberta. And number two, at the time of a successful referendum, you acknowledge Alberta's sovereignty to the Alberta government and to the rest of the world. I want to just mention a conversation that I had at the Bonnieville uh premier's dinner where Premier Smith was sitting next to me and on the other side was Mitch Sylvester. And I asked her the question. I said, "What are you going to get in front of this parade?" you know, we already had at that point was around 220,000 members. And uh I said, "What are you going to get in front of this parade?" And she said, "Well, give me 6 months." Okay. Well, we're going to give her 6 months to see and see what happens. But I left her with this thought, and I want you all to think about this. You can win with us. You can't win without us. Here's a pension a conversation that I had.