Derek Fildebrandt
Western Standard
Opening Debate Statement

"Alberta has given Ottawa a net $322 billion more in revenue than has received back since 2007. Alberta has six times Nova Scotia's population, but only three and a half times as many MPs and half as many senators. Alberta votes overwhelmingly conservative, but four out of five of our senators are liberals. Most of them are on the radical left and one even pushes transitioning little children.

Well-meaning federalist conservative politicians tell us that we just need to vote for them to make everything okay. But we have done that for the last 28 elections in a row since 1935.
We have said the West wants in. But on the occasion that we do get in, the changes that we get are relatively small and quickly reversed by the next liberal government.

Conservatives may promise a pipeline, but they will never promise to reform the Constitution to give the West fair representation or to end equalization. They cannot because they need to win votes in the East to form government. I fight for independence not because I dislike Canada. On the contrary, I love Canada. I grew up in small army and air force towns across Canada and had dreams of being a captain in the Royal Canadian Navy. But our Canada is gone. It has been replaced by a post-national economic redistribution zone. That Canada is terminally ill and it shows no signs that it is willing to save itself.

That Canada is crippled with shame and guilt and only arouses itself to fly the maple leaf when the bad orange man says mean things. That Canada tore down its monuments to Sir John. McDonald and Queen Victoria. That Canada spits on the heroes that conquered and settled a harsh and hostile wilderness and made it in one of the greatest and freest nations on Earth. That Canada lowered its flag in self- flagillating shame for months to atone for a genocide that it well knew was a hoax. That Canada rejected its liberty for censorship and the false illusion of safety. That Canada opened the floodgates to third world mass migration that is destroying the inheritance passed on to us by our ancestors. That Canada tells you that you're racist if you oppose it. That Canada puts tampons in the men's room of a military base that used to be the home of one of the most feared armies in the world. That Canada used emergency war powers to violently and unconstitutionally crush a peaceful protest of flag waving Canadians that were sick of having their freedoms crushed on the altar of COVID hysteria. That Canada was ashamed of the Canadian flag until we raised Alberta's blue shield in defiance.

Alberta, and perhaps Saskatchewan, is the last bastion of real Canadian patriots. Patriots proud of our past and unwilling to surrender our future. We are trying to save a part of Canada by declaring that our portion of it is proud of its inheritance and is willing to fight to hand it to our posterity stronger than we found it."