I am For Independence
The text of my address at Alberta At The Crossroads
Good evening. My name is Brad Donovan. I serve as an Elder at Christ Covenant Church here in Grande Prairie.
I am for Albertan Independence.
Why would a man want to break apart an old political federation and look to replace it with another one? Are we not in danger of replacing one tyrant with another? What is it that I believe that we should want?
Political associations and national borders are things that come and go. Canada is not some eternal principle that must exist. This nation had its founding in 1867. Before that, we were all a British colony. Alberta was once owned by a company. Before that, various tribes attacked each other, taking whatever the strength of their warbands could seize. Each of us has ancestors who came here from somewhere else, and many of those nations no longer exist. Such is the way of nations. They exist to fill a purpose, and when they lose their purpose, they go. Canada was formed as a Confederation of British Colonies. Canada was formed to serve the interests of Upper Canada, which is now called Ontario.
Confederation is structured in such a way so as to render our votes as being utterly meaningless. When was the last time Alberta votes mattered in the affairs of our nation? When Stephen Harper said that we had a “seat at the table” following the 2006 election, one might be forgiven for believing him. He certainly was sincere in believing that he had finally accomplished that very thing. Events have proved that sentiment to have been nothing more than smoke on a rainy day.
At no time has Alberta ever had a meaningful seat at the table. When Alberta and Saskatchewan joined confederation in 1905, the union we had enjoyed with Saskatchewan was terminated by PM Laurier. He did this in order to prevent us from ever challenging the Upper Canadian dominance of our country. The Laurentian Elites have dominated us from their twin-towered cities of Ottawa and Toronto ever since. In the eyes of the eastern elites, we are nothing more than a satellite who orbits their center of mass.
Life as a satellite would be agreeable indeed, if the interests of the center and of the satellite were in harmony. It has become increasingly clear to me that the interests of the Laurentian elites and the interests of Alberta are diverging.
In relation to the East, our population has grown. We have grown in relation to the rest of the country, but our say in things has not grown with our people. We are chronically under-represented in Parliament. Moreover, we have seen that all elections are decided by the time the votes are counted in Ontario. Albertan votes do not need to be counted to determine who shall govern.
Moreover, we generate economic wealth well beyond our share in the population. It is clear that we are a colony who exists to fund the expensive nonsense being driven by the elites. Indeed, Alberta pays about 17% of all federal taxes. We are projected to pay about 95 billion dollars in federal taxes this year. From 2004 until 2024, we contributed 285 Billion dollars to the federal government above what we received in equalization payments. I understand not all taxes are part of the equalization scheme, but these numbers represent a monstrous transfer of capital from hard working Albertans into the pockets of the Eastern Oligarchs.
And what have we gotten for all this money? What has our money purchased? Our money seems to have purchased nothing more than an assault on our way of living.
Ottawa has used laws and regulations to strangle our business. They cannot share power with us. They know that generating wealth is power. Ottawa worships power. The suppression of our economic liberty is a type of oppression. It is a slow garroting of our people. At first one feels only a slight suffocation. The inconvenience of being strangled eventually gives way to the shock of the realisation that there is air, and I cannot breath it.
Relentless laws and regulations against our productivity are theft.
Taxation without proper representation is theft. “You shall not steal” is one of Gods finest commandments. It applies to each of us individually, and it also applies to governments. If a government takes money from its citizenry and then uses it against the best interests of those citizens, that is a type of theft. Corruption is also theft. Where did all the money wasted on the Arrivescan app come from? What about all the grants handed out to liberal supporters? All the jobs created for party functionaries? The budget of the CBC, the liberal propaganda machine, comes from our pockets. We are paying the wages of propagandists who hate us and our way of life. Where does all that money come from? Does it not come from we, the body politic?
What about currency inflation? We are in the midst of an inflationary disaster. Twenty years ago, everything cost half of what it does now. In terms of purchasing power, you need 2$ to buy what cost 1$ in 2000AD. The inflation we experienced twenty years ago was nothing to sneeze at either. Recently, the Government used a fake pandemic as an excuse to hyper-inflate our economy by pumping in what it called “stimulus”. Do you remember that? Inflation is nothing more than theft. The money with which we trade and by which we assign value, has lost half its value in two decades. The value of our money has plummeted. There are too many dollars available, relative to transactions in the economy. This is theft.
Wages have not grown to match this inflation, and we all feel the pain. This pain is the natural consequence of a policy of theft. God required sound money of his people in Leviticus 19:35-36, which is also repeated in Proverbs 20:10. True justice in Canada would demand that we have sound money.
Inflation hurts the poor and the elderly disproportionally to the rich. An investor can hide behind his rising stock valuations. A businessman can raise his prices, and in such an economy would be a fool not to. The poor cannot raise his wages. The elderly cannot increase his pension. A government bureaucrat need not concern himself with inflation at all, for he has his hand in the pot to begin with.
Were I to list all of the many plunderings of our wealth by Ottawa, we would be here all night. What then do we get? What have the federal thieves given us in exchange for all our wealth?
We pay for abortion, euthanasia, and transvestism. We are paying the salaries of the prophets of the Woke with our taxes. We pay for surveillance against ourselves. We pay for Parliamentarians who make laws outlawing the teaching of Christian sexual ethics. We pay for Parliamentarians to make laws to take our guns away. They only want to take our guns away so that they can do to us what they are not brazen enough to do to an armed and free citizenry.
We paid for political repression against truckers, who took their own welfare in hand, and peacefully protested the most egregious and damning betrayal of this nation. I speak of course, of the covid hoax. We paid to have a Prime Minister wear funny socks. Canada is unserious.
National defence is neglected. National honour is destroyed. Civil liberties are almost gone. We use the law to impoverish our fellow countrymen, instead of using it to protect his property and dignity.
Canada was once a Christian Nation. We inscribed Psalm 72 inside the Parliament buildings. In Psalm 72 we read about the Rule of Jesus, our Lord.
“May he have dominion from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth!”
This is inscribed on the walls of those buildings. Our fathers once called Jesus “Lord”. They put the solemn declaration of His eternal and comprehensive rule over all of the seen and unseen world on the walls of our Parliament buildings. Since then, our nation has rebelled against the Lord. We are the lesser sons of greater sires. We are now the people of Psalm 2 who say,
“Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
We are these kinds of people. Canada is a rebellious nation. We need a national repentance.
What of the floor-crossings that PM Carney has been scheming at? He could not get power by honorable means, and so he gets it by guile.These defections are one of the reasons why I want Alberta Independence.
Albertan votes do not matter within Confederation. Confederation has become nothing more than a grubbing after the power to oppress one’s neighbor. These are folks who desire to be within the inner circle of Power. Power is the drug that they crave. PM Carney is shrewd. Like recognizes like, and he knows what he is doing.
This is Taxation without Representation. We, like the Irish pre-1922, have a token presence in Parliament. Nothing we say, believe, or hold dear matters. We are irrelevant in our own confederation. All our affairs are being run by a foreign power in Ottawa. All our institutions are under assault. Bill C-9, which will be signed into law soon, is an attack on our faith. The various anti-industry laws and taxes are designed to impoverish us. Why should we go along with these provocations?
In an Independent Alberta we have a chance to defend the unborn. We can actually outlaw murder. Euthanasia can be once again made illegal. We actually can protect our children from the mutilations of the trans movement. We have the opportunity to reject extortionate taxation, and to found our civil government on the principles of restraint, justice, and a closer alignment to Gods word. We have a chance to plant liberty in our soil. We have the opportunity to create a Just Nation for our children and our grandchildren. Why should we not take our future into our own hands?
It has long been clear to me that Christians have failed to read the political terrain of Canada. We might vote. Few of us do that. We then discover our vote does not matter. And we moan about the futility of voting. We see that the politicians are corrupt, and we say so, but we will do nothing.
What then should we do?
We should pursue true repentance, each of us, for our sins of sloth and public carelessness. Laziness is a sin. It has consequences. The perilous moment we find ourselves in is the result of the laziness of Christians. We bought the lie of secularist safety, and we now know that we have been had. Secularism was always a ploy to enslave a free people by guile. Vigilance is always the price men must pay to maintain liberty. We must repent of laziness, and embrace public life. We must be public Christians again.
I believe we ought to put our weight behind Albertan Independence. We should want the Lord to answer the prayer that we all pray every day, “Your kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.” We should want a more righteous and just society. Does the Lord bless the unrighteous? No, he does not. We, of all people, should embody our Lords command to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” How better to love your neighbor, than to strive for justice on his behalf? Let us have a just and free society. We cannot save a nation that does not want to be saved, but we can make a new one. We have the chance to found our Nation on principles of Justice that aligns with what God says about Justice in his word.
The obvious thing to do is to infiltrate each CA in every riding. Then we put our candidates into the elections. Christians have got to start doing this if they ever hope to rescue Canada and Alberta from Euthanasia, Abortion, Corruption and Statist Totalitarianism. Get on the boards and put a slew of our people forward. Do this over a generation or two and the results will speak for themselves. We must out Gramsci Gramsci. This principle applies to Confederates as well as to Independents. We must continue to infiltrate every provincial CA. We must also target every school board, and every city council. It is time for a full-court press in every direction. We can overwhelm every institution in our land. We do have the numbers; we need only have a heart for the work.
The final thing that we must do if we want to live in a just and free society is to determine to gather for worship. The Lord listens to the prayers of His Church. He hears from heaven and answers. We need to be gathering together and praying together without ceasing, that he will move men’s hearts in this land. Men who are dead in their sins cannot be free; spiritually dead men cannot build free societies. And so we must be in earnest for the repentance of our neighbors, and for their conversions and new birth.
In conclusion, I ask all who are for Confederation, Where is your activity? Why have you been rearward in your actions? Is the Canadian Church asleep? Do something! If Confederation is worth saving, then save it! We cannot afford to be timid. Stand straight, look evil in the eye, and triumph over it in the name of Jesus!
I have concluded that Confederation cannot be saved, and that Alberta must get out. I believe that the Church has an opportunity in this moment to inflect Alberta towards being a Nation that more closely aligns with True Justice. I desire to give to my sons a nation that is just, and wherein which they may be free.
Thank you, and God bless Alberta.
Thank you Brad.